Even ignoring the dangers of embrittlement of metal pipes that carry the hydrogen enriched gas, what is the cost of this methane/hydrogen filter, and what is it's safety for home use given that it's dealing with 2 highly flammable gases mixed together. I can't find anything online about household methane/hydrogen separators.
Whereas an EVSE is basically just a big electrical switch.
For papers on hydrogen/methane separation, see: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=blen...
From a quick reading above it looks like it came from cracking fossil fuels rather than electrolysis which is understandable but I think that should be made clear to everyone. It’s really just another way to ship fossil fuels in that sense. Burns slightly cleaner on your stove is the only real advantage here.
Does it matter if you reduce CO2 it at the household point of combustion if the fuel is ultimately C02 emissions heavy? Accounting for the inefficiencies of cracking natural gas into H2, it may actually increase the GHG emissions, not to mention being more expensive (due to energy loss during the gas cracking process).
Furthermore, the primary local issue with combustion appliances is air quality, and mixing in a little H2 not going to do much to improve that.
So piping fossil derived hydrogen into gas pipes doesn't solve either GHG emissions or local air quality issues.
You're better off continuing with piped methane gas and phasing in electric heat pumps over time.
Assuming you don't let out the carbon (or use electrolysis) then maybe there is a case for it.
Which should just add to how stupid hydrogen is. It’s a synthetic fuel that has huge storage and transport costs, is no more green or easier to produce than synthetic methane which we already have. We could just make synthetic methane today if that was the path we were likely to take but honestly it’s cheaper to pump methane out of the ground so that’s what we do (barring any incentives to mix in synthetic methane).
A real hilarity is that hydrogen fuel right now is often made the opposite way. Take methane, heat in absence of oxygen and the carbon and hydrogen seperate. All this talk of hydrogen as an alternative to fossil fuels is nonsense. It’s a synthetic fuel, one of many possible synthetic fuels that’s extremely inconvenient for storage (absolutely can’t be stored in liquid form without cryogenics or ‘bleed off’ to keep it cool), it corrodes fucking everything and best of all it’s no easier to produce synthetically than the fuels we already use day to day, eg methane.
Absolute stupidity and scientific illiteracy that hydrogen was even on the cards.