Hydrogen boilers favoured by environmentalists to replace gas in homes could cause FOUR times more explosions, government-backed study reveals
Hydrogen-heated homes could ignited four times as many explosions as gas boilers, a government-backed study has found. Arup, working for the business department, said it could cause 39 blasts and 65 injuries per year in the kitchen or ground floor. This was compared to just nine detonations and 17 people getting hurt for natural gas. It comes as hydrogen is being tested across Britain to see if it can be used to replace gas for greener heated homes. But it is more flammable and lighter and is yet to have been used on the grid to heat the country. Arup, working for the business department, said it could cause 39 blasts and 65 injuries per year in the kitchen or ground floor (file photo) Hydrogen boilers have not yet hit the market, with Worcester Bosch building this prototype If hydrogen is part of a zero-carbon future, it could have to be produced by electrolysis (as shown above), which sees electric currents passed through water. Another option is for the plants to capture the carbon