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100% this. Few people have been able to answer the question of "how does it compare to a heat pump that has a SCOP of 4?" without me having to fight the urge to
by hkt 3y ago
100% this. Few people have been able to answer the question of "how does it compare to a heat pump that has a SCOP of 4?" without me having to fight the urge to roll my eyes.
By the time (highly explosive) hydrogen gets into people's homes I'd be surprised if it was even 20% as efficient as a heat pump.
- wffurr 3y agoYou would use hydrogen to produce methane to then burn in people's existing as furnaces using the existing natural gas distribution infrastructure. That seems to be Terraform's plan. Still seems better to me to convert as much housing as possible to heat pumps, which seem much better fit for purpose than on-site combustion. I think green hydrogen has a lot more potential as a precursor to liquid fuels for e.g. aviation and shipping, which otherwise will be extremely difficult to electrify.
- _aavaa_ 3y agoIf you're going to convert it into methane and burn it you'll make a fuel cell's ~37% round trip efficiency look massive. turning it into methane to burn it is trying to solve last century's problem. People need way to stay warm not things to burn.