A picture really does speak 1,000 words on Hydrogen

[Suff]

https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/opinion-w ... our-homes/

This is why Hydrogen is a fairy story and why the money will be put into heat pumps and they will be used.

[Workingman]

It's an opinion piece from a charity with an agenda so not worth responding to except to say that nobody, anywhere, is suggesting we heat all our homes with hydrogen.

[Suff]

It's an opinion piece from a charity with an agenda so not worth responding to except to say that nobody, anywhere, is suggesting we heat all our homes with hydrogen.

Actually the fossil fuel lobby is suggesting exactly that. Just imagine. We burn all those fossil fuels to do methane reformation to Hydrogen from natural gas then we take the Hydrogen and burn it in our homes and, so, being uber clean. Whilst they make a fortune.

Believe this one. It is being suggested quite forcefully.

Oh they talk about using "green" hydrogen. But they all have this nice little caveat in the plan that they will use "grey" hydrogen until sufficient "green" is on stream. For "until" read "never" if they have anything to do with it.

Also, the numbers are correct. Charity and opinion piece aside.

[Suff]

And you do want to be careful about who is yanking your chain.

Revealed: Media Blitz Against Heat Pumps Funded by Gas Lobby Group

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned.

Over the past two years, the Energy and Utilities Association (EUA) has paid a public affairs firm to generate hundreds of articles and interviews to lobby the UK government on energy policy.

The PR campaign subjects heat pumps to intense criticism. Powered by electricity, heat pumps are currently set to play a key role in decarbonising heating and replacing gas boilers, which heat around 85 percent of Britain’s homes and account for 15 percent of greenhouse gas emissions nationwide.

Negative stories about electric heat pumps have featured in outlets such as The Sun, Telegraph and The Express, in which damning headlines dub the technology “Soviet-style”, “financially irrational” as well as “costly and noisy”. Broadcast media has amplified similar messages on BBC 2’s Newsnight, LBC, TalkTV and GB News.

The company driving this coverage is the Birmingham-based WPR Agency, which was hired by the EUA to deliver an “integrated PR and social media campaign” to “help change the direction of government policy”.