RE: Hydrogen14 Feb 2023 12:41
Hydrogen is one of the answers, but not THE answer to the UK's efforts to get to net zero.
The UK Govt should be putting far more effort into promoting Hydrogen in two areas;
A) Use in gas boilers for homes that can't retrofit ASHP's (not that they are worth it in most cases..).
B) Hydrogen powered vehicles. We should be pouring money (like the Japanese and Koreans) into H2 fuel celled vehicles, not EV's which are a dead end technology and come with terrible environmental consequences.
Setting up an H2 infrastructure is actually a lot easier than people think - Shell, HM Govt, the California State Govt and Toyota (or is it Honda? Never can remember..) have developed an H2 generating system which fits into a standard container. Power and water in at one end, H2 & O2 out of the other. So as fuel usage drops, take one of the fuel storage tanks out of a petrol station, replace it with an H2 generator, modify one of the discharge pumps and away you go.
Not only can it fill an H2 cell powered vehicle, if the technological break though announced in Aus. last week about using H2 to power Diesel engine vehicles comes to fruition, it can be used to generate fuel for these vehicles too.
H2 fuel cells are designed to last the life of a vehicle (25 yrs) and if they break down, are easy to refurbish.
It's usually the catalyst (Platinum or Palladium) that fails, so you take out that particular cell (a fuel cell is actually made up of many smaller cells), strip off the old catalyst (which can be recovered and reused), coat on a new layer of catalyst, put it back in and away you go.
What has all this to do with UKOG?
Absolutely nothing.
They will never get backing from any Bank or other financial institution for Portland.
UKOG are far too small and the track record of their Management is one of serial failure.