• Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    The cost to rip out all boilers and replace them with heat pumps is a fantasy. You’re looking at 10k with all the tanks etc. Not going to happen.

    As a transition fuel, green hydrogen makes sense, new boilers can burn a hydrogen mix and all the gas pipes in the UK are in the process of having plastic inserts installed so hydrogen won’t escape.

    You either make hydrogen with renewables, with the cost on a par with fossil fuel methods, which is already happening, or have to use batteries, batteries are full of rare earth minerals and are also expensive.