Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "The Lurking Dangers of Natural Gas" video.

  1. In the UK you cannot work on gas unless you are trained with a permit. If you do you may be in court. Modern gas appliance have gas fail safe controls. I prefer electric induction hobs to gas.
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  2.  @freeheeler09  zikes
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  3. In the UK iron natural gas pipes have been largely replaced by plastic. Older iron pipes are used as conduit running new plastic pipes thru them at a higher pressure. Also the UK, and other cities around the world, are full of combi boilers in small houses and apartments, which is the space heating and on-demand hot water in a small white box on the wall. The packaging is exceptional. Converting from natural gas to hydrogen is the best way. Heat pumps require a hot water storage cylinder and a large heat pump taking up large volumes of space in a small apartment. We have extensive natural gas pipe networks which are there waiting for hydrogen.
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  4.  @kurthanushek5520  Nonsense. Sounds like propaganda. The existing gas networks are perfectly suited for hydrogen. As you alluded to, hydrogen can be produced via green electricity. Lots of solar and wind electricity is made during the slack periods enabling easy storage. Also hydrogen can be produced cheaply using nitrogen cooled reactors, as the Japanese are doing right now - this channel covered it. Hydrogen can be produced say at train depots by green electricity entailing no hydrogen transportation. Clean hydrogen trains can replace filthy diesel. A country like the UK can be 100% green electricity, and very quickly - the project to do so has been accelerated. If you got the prime point I made, which is that heat pump equipment with associated large hot water storage cylinders (tanks in USA), is just far too large and cumbersome being totally unsuited to millions of homes. I have a natural gas combi heat generator (boiler) in my place, that supplies the space heating and on-demand hot water. A white box on the wall. It is hydrogen ready.
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  5. @ My reply was deleted.
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  6.  @Ethan.Lamoureux  It is best to have laws and a system that only allows trained professionals touch gas pipes and equipment.
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