Lord Callanan, speaking to The Climate Show with Tom Heap, says hydrogen could play a "small role in some localised areas" in heating UK homes.
  • Wanderer@lemm.ee
    10·
    1 year ago

    Guess it’s back to electrify everything then.

    Induction and heatpumps are the only answer.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
      64·
      1 year ago

      For home heating and cooking, they’re definitely a good route.

      Ordinary coil stoves are fine to cook on too (I did for decades) but don’t meet the need for upper-class signalling in the way that induction does.

      • Raxiel@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Ordinary coil stoves are fine to cook on too

        It’s not their effectiveness that’s in question, just their efficiency.

        Obviously the conversion of electricity > heat is always the same (100%) but induction is better at getting more of that heat into the food rather than the surroundings.

    • lud@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      I wonder if geothermal is something they can do there.

      It’s common in the Nordics and is usually the cheapest way to heat homes.

      Last winter electricity was so expensive that district heating won.

      But geothermal has otherwise been cheapest.