“Replacing Natural Gas With Hydrogen Is A Fairy Tale”…”Six Times More Electricity”

“Replacing Natural Gas With Hydrogen Is A Fairy Tale”…”Six Times More Electricity”

• "A mostly ignored problem in the hydrogen discussion is that the existing gas grids are not suitable for handling larger amounts of hydrogen...leads to the embrittlement of metals...
• But the alternative is not as ‘green’ as hydrogen likes to be called. Among other things, it is pointed out that considerable technical changes would also be required in households, including the piping in the home, among other things due to embrittlement. This would also cost households an enormous amount of money.
• In addition, it is abundantly inefficient to use electricity from renewable sources to electrolyze water to produce hydrogen for this purpose. ‘In the UK, heating homes with green hydrogen would use about six times more renewable electricity than heat pumps,’...