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1. The "home" is not a unit of energy. Generally when represented as such, a fraud is underway. Hydrogen is a dirty...
Sun Nov 10, 2024, 06:18 PM
Nov 2024

...fuel made by exergy destruction of dangerous fossil fuels, thus wasting energy and driving the climate collapse that 50 years of hydrogen bullshit has done nothing but to accelerate.

A Giant Climate Lie: When they're selling hydrogen, what they're really selling is fossil fuels.

The carbon intensity of this dirty fuel was reported in the scientific paper I linked today, which demonstrated that if hydrogen were made using the useless solar industry - it isn't, because the solar industry is useless and trivial but is advertised as such by the fossil fuel industry in a "bait and switch" - the carbon intensity would be roughly 2 kg CO2 per kg H2, which is anything but clean. The way that hydrogen is actually made, by steam reforming of dangerous fossil fuels has an even higher carbon intensity.

Nuclear vs Solar Comparison of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Produce Electrolytic Hydrogen.

(I note that as the point of advertising hydrogen to greenwash fossil fuels, the salespeople who push it here oppose nuclear energy, which in theory, if we chose to waste clean energy (nuclear) to make a greenwash the realities of hydrogen, solar would be even more wasteful than wasting clean nuclear energy for this fossil fuel marketing plan.)

This is announcement that Singapore is planning on powering itself even more wastefully than just directly burning the coal or gas from which hydrogen is made. It's a dishonest scam.

The IEA has begun including soothsaying about hydrogen in the World Energy Outlook as of 2024, noting that hydrogen is trivial and useless now, and predicts will be still be so "by 2050," but details that to make 5 EJ hydrogen, 7 EJ of primary energy will need to be consumed.



IEA World Energy Outlook 2024
Table A.1a: World energy supply Page 296.

In 2050, the IEA predicts that world energy demand will be over 700 EJ, with 7 EJ being used to produce 5 EJ of hydrogen energy.

Whenever I put up a post here pointing to the scientific literature involving how wasteful the hydrogen scam is, I'm sure to see a dishonest fossil fuel ad pretending that hydrogen is clean.

It isn't. It's a filthy fuel.

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