
How Clean is Hydrogen, Actually? With Prof. David Cebon
The Fully Charged Podcast
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Heat Pump Is a Miracle of Engineering
Hydrogen is colorless, odorless and you can't sit burning. It's highly explosive, it's much higher, much more explosive than gas. Generates high anox emissions, so we've got these problems of nitrous oxides generated when you burn gas in the home. You get six times more heat per kilowatt hour of renewable electricity with a heat pump,. then with the hydrogen boiler, it means you need six times more offshore wind turbines if you want to use green hydrogen rather than power from renewables. The UK would require 10 times as many off-shore wind turbines that we have right now for this kind of heating. So again, what the industry says well,
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