RE: The future for igas?18 Mar 2022 15:49
Well, you can't do that everywhere, and you can't drill everywhere because there really will be earthquakes a some point. Also, if the UK were to got to district heating, there will be losses whilst pumping hot water from place to place and thousands of miles of roads will have to be dug up to install insulated hot water pipes. I think the best strategy is to use the geothermal energy to make biogas [methane or hydrogen] and distribute most of the gas around the country via the existing gas-grid. For hydrogen , it would be better to transfer it at shorter ranges to minimize losses, through plastic pipes rather than metal, which could corrode on exposure to it.