Hydrogen ready?

[sxturbo]

I don't think hydrogen is dead, I think they will use blue hydrogen blended with natural gas.

This will still be a significant emissions reduction, and keeps the oil and gas companies happy.

 

[sirocosm]

Burning hydrogen in the home as a fuel is a total bust, and will never get anywhere other than a few 'showcase' installations.
It's just the last gasps of an expiring fossil fuel industry desperate to carry on for just that little bit longer.

The reason that hydrogen is attrictive is two-fold, because the electrical grid cannot currently handle home heating, and because hydrogen can be used to "store" electricity.

They [electric boilers] are not, due to their grossly inefficient use of electricity, which makes them far too expensive to use.

Resistive electric heaters, including boilers are almost 100% efficient. The reason to use a boiler instead of electric heaters is the same as above, to use the existing pipes, as the house wiring that was not designed for heating is not up to the job. It is also less of a fire hazard to have an electric boiler and radiators than a bunch of electric heaters about.

Like it or not, the whole concept of burning fuels of any kind for heating, cooking, transport and anything else is going away. Permanently.

Not likely. The future will be powered by electricity, possibly stored as hydrogen, maybe someone makes a major battery breakthrough, who knows. But the energy will most certainly come from nuclear power when the fossil fuel runs out.