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You would use hydrogen to produce methane to then burn in people's existing as furnaces using the existing natural gas distribution infrastructure. That seems
by wffurr 3y ago
You 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.