Originally Posted by Jon G4LJW
Originally Posted by Hamwich
Originally Posted by PaulV
I wonder if the gas network will end up transitioning to biogas or even hyrdrogen? Is the latter even feasible?
https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-pipelines



There's a fair amount of biogas already in the network, I am on a Green Gas tariff from Ecotricity. Not sure you could put hydrogen though the existing pipes though.


There is testing underway now, with the aim of converting the UK gas networks to 100% hydrogen....

https://www.h21.green



But what is the point. Remember the law of conservation of energy? To produce hydrogen even at 100% efficiency takes as much energy as buring it can ever produce. So why turn lexxy into hydrogen with energy losses simply to send through the pipes ( again with losses) when you can simply send the leccy through the wires?

People seem to think that there is a magic bullet that can be used to give copious energy without problems. Petroleum works simply because it already exists. Nuclear power works because the laws of conservation of energy dont apply to fusion.