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1. Hydrogen is only slightly more stupid than batteries. The idea that storing energy is "green" is pernicious bullshit.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 09:48 PM
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The issue is primary energy which is increasingly provided by dangerous fossil fuels.

The laws of thermodynamics are not subject to slick marketing. Making hydrogen, in all cases, destroys exergy.

In the case of hydrogen, it has been so since 1976, not that this prevents the fossil fuel industry from promoting hydrogen, to a credulous scientifically illiterate set of people, as "green."

Hydrogen stations are an obscenity, in the same class as carbon sequestration, and, for that matter, wind and solar energy, all of which have had no effect on the collapse of the planetary atmosphere other than to make it worse.

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