Why heating our homes with hydrogen could be a pipe dream
Locals in a Cheshire village got into an explosive argument about hydrogen.
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Show Notes
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’re 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?
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- Kate Grannell, campaigner.
Host: Luke Jones.
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