A number of countries are hoping to replace natural gas heating systems with hydrogen as a way to reduce carbon emissions, but a review has found that it is not a viable solution
at the Regulatory Assistance Project, a non-governmental organisation, looked at 32 studies from the UK, European Union, California and São Paulo in Brazil. Overall, they show that hydrogen is “less economic, less efficient, more resource intensive and associated with larger environmental impacts”, writes Rosenow.Cost and energy efficiency are two main problems, says Rosenow. Today, more than 95 per cent of hydrogen is produced using natural gas or coal.
Hydrogen-dominated heating would cost UK consumers 73 per cent more than systems relying on district heating and heat pumpsFurther, “significant uncertainties” exist over the viability of converting countries’ existing gas networks to hydrogen, and hydrogen infrastructure is more extensive than that needed for heat pumps, increasing environmental impacts, writes Rosenow.
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