France hits hydrogen jackpot: World's largest reserve valued $92 billion found

[NNadir]

3. Um, um, um, the United States alone consumes around 20 million barrels of oil a day, roughly 3 million tons. I...

...fully understand that all of the hydrogen bullshit that flies around here is motivated to greenwashing fossil fuels, specifically drill, baby, drill mentality.

I can see it now.

"I'm drilling for hydrogen, but whoops, I ran into gas; I guess I'll have to burn it."

There's no way that it would be economically viable, even if it were real and recoverable, to drill for 46 million tons of hydrogen for a few days of fuel.

One of the things about airheads pushing this tiresome shit, including the outright lie that hydrogen is "green," and produced by so called "renewable energy" is that like most cheap marketeers they assume that the general public is stupid enough to lack a sense of scale.

Now I realize that the people here working to market fossil fuels as "hydrogen" don't give a shit about the extreme global heating with which we now live, but even if there were as much geological hydrogen as there is natural gas, producing water in a time of rising seas would be irresponsible.

It's bullshit, as usual.

France by the way, doesn't actually need to drill for anything. They have the cleanest primary energy supply in the world. They're powered by nuclear energy.