JUST a few years ago on the then George Reynolds Industrial Estate in Shildon, there was a power station that used gas/aviation fuel and housed Rolls Royce turbines that could power both Darlington and Newton Aycliffe.
Hydrogen is a “green energy” which could easily power the above turbines.
Rolls Royce is now making 9,000 workers redundant - probably because nobody wants aeroplanes anymore. Surely it should be working 24/7 to manufacture the huge turbines.
If seawater was split by electrolysis to make hydrogen and oxygen using solar power, surely Aqaba in Jordan would be the safest, solar-powered place to produce the fuel.
R Stuart Johnson, Belmont, Durham.
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