Why heating our homes with hydrogen could be a pipe dream
Why hydrogen might not be the successor to the gas boiler.
In the neighbourhood of Whitby in Cheshire, residents had to grapple with a question that many more of us will have to ask in the coming years: how should we heat our homes if we鈥檙e no longer allowed gas boilers? What started as a proposal to test hydrogen heating soon escalated into an explosive argument. As government policies aimed at reaching net zero start to affect our daily lives, is it a sign of the squabbles to come?
Guests:
- Ben Cooke, Times Earth editor.
- Kate Grannell, campaigner.
Host: Luke Jones.
Clips: Cheshire West and Chester Council, Sky News, The Economist, TED.
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