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There’s a Cleaner Way to Heat Your Home, and It’s Not Hydrogen
The gas will play an important role in our net zero future, but we should keep it out of our houses.
Commit to hydrogen?
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Hydrogen is one of the most abundant gases, estimated to make up 75% of the mass of the universe. It also has great potential to help the world slash greenhouse gas emissions, since it doesn’t produce any carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions when it’s burned for energy. Yet its use has been limited thus far.
That’s set to change in the UK over the next couple of years.