A part of history for balance.22 Aug 2023 12:39
Scottish engineer William Murdoch first put coal gas to practical use, lighting his house in Cornwall with it in 1792.
Murdoch’s employers, the Birmingham steam engine manufacturers Boulton and Watt, started to build small gas works for large users like factories. The first of these was installed in a cotton mill in Manchester in 1806.
In 1807 a German businessman Frederick Winsor obtained a Royal Charter to build public gas works and the first opened in 1813 in Westminster.
Gas lighting proved so popular that, within 15 years, almost every large town in Britain, as well as major cities in Europe, North America and beyond, had a gas works. The Company which Winsor founded, the Gas Light and Coke Company, continued to supply most of London’s gas until the industry was nationalised in 1949
Considering the size of our DMG plant I fail to see how it could hope to supply this country’s gas central heating boilers without going back 200 years and following the same scale of growth. Best to stick to plastic recycling with electric generation and some small scale Hydrogen production to support feedstock lorries