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ON HYDROGEN

Director of Innovation at Radius is blowing, or the tides are moving.
Systems Derek Muckle and Graduate Hydrogen is great in that sense; you
can store vast amounts of it. What we
Development Engineer Simeon Adej- already see is a lot of local authorities
Doku talk about the future of the are converting their buses and dustbin
gas network and how pipeline systems are adapting in lorries to hydrogen because they
preparation for hydrogen see the flexibility and benefit of that
technology. It’s not the sole solution
to the future energy problem – you
DEREK MUCKLE: Hydrogen is not a new idea. network, so one way to think about it is can’t use hydrogen in isolation – so it
It has been around for a very long time to imagine our current gas distribution becomes part of the solution, alongside
and has long had advocates who see it as system as one huge battery; one energy everything else.
a clean fuel that we can use in the future. storage device that has all the energy in
What is new is that now people are it that you need to heat over 20 million SIMEON ADEJ-DOKU: Hydrogen has been
thinking in practical terms about how homes in the country, at the press of a looked at as a fuel of the future. This
they could use it. You can store hydrogen button. You can do that regardless of is split into three parts: you have the
within an existing gas distribution whether the sun is shining, the wind area dealing with hydrogen production,

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