Thursday, January 9, 2020

Asking The Important Questions: "Hydrogen-powered gin distilling being investigated in Orkney"

From the BBC, August 30:
A distillery in Orkney could make gin with the help of hydrogen power.
The Orkney Distillery 'HySpirits' project to explore the possibility of converting from using liquid petroleum gas has been awarded almost £150,000 of UK government funding.
The aim is to make providing heat during distillation more environmentally friendly.
The project is in conjunction with Napier University will[?] the European Marine Energy Centre (Emec).

'Incredibly exciting'
It is being described as a world first...MORE
I know I'm all atingle.
More seriously, from the BBC in March 2019:
How hydrogen is transforming these tiny Scottish islands

And from the local Council:
H2 in Orkney – The Hydrogen Islands

This stuff is the reason we posted "The Orkney Energy Miracle" last February and  "Energy: Deep Time and an Uncertain Future on the Orkney Islands" a couple months later.
Sadly, we couldn't get the Financial Times' J. Kelly to bite.

Even tried possibly more enticing locales (although seriously, what's not to love about Orkney?):
"The Hot Mess of Hawai‘i’s Renewable Power Push" 
Inspired by Jemima Kelly* we continue our look at energy on little islands.**

But so far, nothing.