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August 2021 saw the start of the UK’s hydrogen revolution according to the Business & Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng – “This home grown clean energy source has the potential to transform the way we power our lives”.

The challenges are how to make it and make it viability as well as how to establish an infrastructure through which it can be transported and consumed.

It is believed that the transport network will be largely driven by electricity at the smaller end (cars and HGVs), albeit electricity produced from hydrogen, with hydrogen used as a fuel for aviation and shipping.

In terms of the UK, with the future of hydrogen and the associated infrastructure being formed on the larger scale, one needs to consider the remaining 50% of the UK, that is to say rural or smaller communities. More disparate in nature, this will always prove a challenge and this is why ultimately a diversity of fuels will be required.

However, there is still scope for some creative thinking about how one generates these smaller volumes.

With over 500 landfills currently operating, and many old ones, there is a significant amount of waste buried within the UK countryside. As well as containing a plethora of precious metals and materials, there is the potential to convert the methane from these landfills into hydrogen using the waste material as a fuel source to provide the steam to do this. Generating value and sustainability  from a longstanding problem.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-government-launches-plan-for-a-world-leading-hydrogen-economy

https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/energy-explained/hydrogen-colour-spectrum

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1011283/UK-Hydrogen-Strategy_web.pdf

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