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NNadir

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4. Despite all the "green" bullshit, hydrogen is overwhelmingly made from fossil fuels, and, in fact, hydrogen bullshit...

Reply to isitreal (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 3, 2024, 11:16 PM

Dec 2024

...is nothing more than greenwashing fossil fuels. It's a very, very, very, very successful scam. The laws of thermodynamics, which the advertisers here and elsewhere are happy people don't know, means that making hydrogen from fossil fuels destroys exergy and thus requires the use of more fossil fuels than the hydrogen can provide. It's an energy loser.

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

Exxon, for instance, pushes hydrogen bullshit, not because they're green, but because they want to greenwash their industry, fossil fuels:

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Panasonic Installs an In-house Hydrogen-based Renewable Energy Power Generation System in Its UK Factory [View all] Caribbeans Dec 2024 OP

Why is everyone always ahead of us? Wait, wait I know. Because we spend millions electing super duper idiots to office. efhmc Dec 2024 #1

because of lobbyists isitreal Dec 2024 #2

Despite all the "green" bullshit, hydrogen is overwhelmingly made from fossil fuels, and, in fact, hydrogen bullshit... NNadir Dec 2024 #4

yes the green source must grow isitreal Dec 2024 #5

No it shouldn't. The land and material resources involved in redundancy is unacceptable and unsustainable. NNadir Dec 2024 #7

yes the green source must grow isitreal Dec 2024 #6

I've always loved Panasonic electronics. So glad they've expanded their brilliance into so many other areas. ancianita Dec 2024 #3