HYDROGEN GRID

The following proposal proposes to convert

the natural gas grids into hydrogen gas grids.

The steam methane reforming process would convert imported natural

gas (methane CH4) into Carbon dioxide and Hydrogen. The grey hydrogen
would replace the natural gas in the pipelines. The grey hydrogen would
be used for heating, cooking, electrical generation, refueling cars and
balancing the grid functioning like a storage system for renewables.

A car can refuel with hydrogen within 5 minutes, up to today hydrogen

has been expensive for cars coming at 10-15 Euros per kilogram (versus
1.5€ per k.g. of hydrogen when natural gas is reformed) and the source of
electricity has been mainly fossil fuel electricity. In this process expensive
fossil fuel electricity is used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen,
utilizing the hydrogen for the car.

Two key benefits of replacing hydrogen with natural gas is abundant

cheap hydrogen petrol stations and integration of renewables
into the electrical grid.

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 Advantages
• Set up cheap hydrogen petrol stations wherever there is a gas grid

• Cheap hydrogen fuel for consumers 1€ per 25Km (5k.g.=500km=20e)

• 30-40% less CO2 emissions for grey hydrogen cars, cleaner transport

• High returns for petrol stations 1.5€ production price vs 4€ sales price per
k.g. of hydrogen. Thereby incentivizing private investors to invest into new
hydrogen refueling stations.

• Solving the chicken and egg problem for hydrogen cars Introducing a
proportional tax on petrol and a subsidy on hydrogen cars. Currently petrol
cars are taxed on a lot of petrol cars and there are only few hydrogen cars,
thus in the beginning subsidies can be budget proportionally high.

• Collecting CO2 taxes, for every 1 k.g. of hydrogen methane reforming

50 cents needs to be paid in CO2 taxes at 100 euro a ton. (1000k.g. ton
/10.5k.g. CO2 emissions per 1k.g. hydrogen = 100€ 50 euros/100 times=0.5
euros) This 50 cents could go towards subsidizing imported clean hydrogen,
proportionally.

• Cars can act like an electrical back up generator.

• Stimulating and opening up a new market for clean hydrogen, places like
Chile, Greenland and Australia are seeking new markets for their WIND2G
and PV2G. Since electrical production of renewables in these countries are
2-4 times higher it compensates for the 50% energy losses to convert it into
hydrogen and 20% transport losses.

• Integrating renewables into the gas grid, allowing the gas grid to function
like a storage system for hydrogen, thereby balancing the electrical grid
and enabling an increased % of renewable sources to be sourced into the
system. When there is oversupply of renewables the cheap electricity can
be converted to cheap hydrogen.
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 Disadvantages

• Investment costs for the grid modifications

• Gas power stations may need to be replaced by fuel cell stations

• Small boiler adaptions

• Hydrogen cars start at 60,000 euros - Mercedes-Benz

GLC F-Cell

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