{"id":430840,"date":"2021-08-16T11:31:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T06:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=430840"},"modified":"2021-08-16T13:04:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T07:34:13","slug":"blue-hydrogen-what-is-it-and-should-it-replace-natural-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/blue-hydrogen-what-is-it-and-should-it-replace-natural-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue hydrogen &#8211; what is it, and should it replace natural gas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue hydrogen is often touted as a low-carbon fuel for generating electricity and storing energy, powering cars, trucks and trains and heating buildings.<\/p>\n<p>But according to a new report by Cornell and Stanford University researchers in the US, it may be no better for the climate &#8211; and potentially a fair bit worse &#8211; than continuing to use fossil natural gas, which currently keeps 85% of UK homes warm. In the US, about half of all homes use natural gas for space and water heating.<\/p>\n<p>So what is hydrogen fuel &#8211; and what makes it blue?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue hydrogen is often touted as a low-carbon fuel for generating electricity and storing energy, powering cars, trucks and trains and heating buildings. But according to a new report by Cornell and Stanford University researchers in the US, it may be no better for the climate &#8211; and potentially a fair bit worse &#8211; than continuing to use fossil natural gas, which currently keeps 85% of UK homes warm. In the US, about half of all homes use natural gas for space and water heating. So what is hydrogen fuel &#8211; and what makes it blue?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}