I’ve studied this (professionally) quite a bit, and I can confidently say you’re generally right.
Blends up to 20% hydrogen or so are pretty straightforward and can be done relatively easily without having to spend hundreds of billions of dollars upgrading downstream equipment, but that’s only, optimistically, a 20% reduction in emissions. To get past that you need to replace most downstream burners, which will be very slow and cost a fortune. Better off going electric for homes
Sounds like an set-up to ensure long-term dependency on natural gas mining, then.
Sorry, we built our infrastructure assuming 80% natural gas, so we just have to mine more natural gas to prevent people from losing their ability to cook food. You wouldn’t want poor families to go hungry, would you?
I’ve studied this (professionally) quite a bit, and I can confidently say you’re generally right.
Blends up to 20% hydrogen or so are pretty straightforward and can be done relatively easily without having to spend hundreds of billions of dollars upgrading downstream equipment, but that’s only, optimistically, a 20% reduction in emissions. To get past that you need to replace most downstream burners, which will be very slow and cost a fortune. Better off going electric for homes
Sounds like an set-up to ensure long-term dependency on natural gas mining, then.