Reply to post: Re: Hydrogen? It's the fuel of the future!

Electric vehicles won't help UK meet emissions targets: Time to get out and walk, warn MPs

Jellied Eel Silver badge

Re: Hydrogen? It's the fuel of the future!

This doesn't typically apply in real-world situations for the following reasons:

We thought about this, and even did some of our own trials. Ok, more of an excuse to abuse some H2 (again*). But given the cunning plan was to de-risk sailing**, one solution was to use enhanced fire detection and IR detectors scanning for hot spots. Regular systems would/should detect other combustion products as well, but was a simple solution that used off the shelf kit, and could be used to identify other threats/risks as well, ie defective wiring or kit starting to overheat.

Then there were other de-risking options. Like not having gas cooking in the galley. Which is a looming issue for the UK anyway given per Climate Charge Act and decarbonisation targets, domestic gas cooking & heating systems will have to be removed. Or replaced. So instead of burning methane at home, it's proposed we switch the gas supply network to hydrogen!

Ignoring how that would be produced, costs etc, what could possibly go wrong!

* So being a student, we bought a tank of H2 and O2, a box of condoms, and made some basic fuzes. Then bimbled off to Grantchester meadows to release them. Police arrived, quickly figured out we were students, and we were being safe(ish) given one of our ladies ran a chemsitry lab for the Uni.

** Ok, and also to end up with a decent sized yacht/technology demonstrator to play with..

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