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NNadir

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3. Not all the hydrogen faithful are cultists in my view.

Reply to hunter (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 8, 2025, 02:28 PM

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Given all of the slick videos that show up here, they strike me as fossil fuel funded greenwashing advertisers describing hydrogen as if it were environmentally sustainable.

It isn't.

After all, ExxonMobil runs hydrogen ads frequently and it would hardly surprise me if they also fund ads designed to present an ersatz "green movement" without attaching their name to the efforts.

The less than subtle people running these ads here are quite happy to engage in antinuke scare mongering as well and given that nuclear energy is the only viable tool to eliminate fossil fuels, this is also consistent, to my mind, with supporting the interests of the fossil fuel industry.

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