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NNadir

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1. Why should the rest of the world worry about "being behind" in wasting energy?

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Original post)

Thu Jun 12, 2025, 02:17 PM

Jun 12

There isn't a "race" to be stupid, is there?

The "green hydroggen" fraud is now half a century old, and for the whole time the laws of thermodynamics have applied, which means hydrogen is inherently dirty.

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China's lead in Green Hydrogen [View all] OKIsItJustMe Jun 12 OP

Why should the rest of the world worry about "being behind" in wasting energy? NNadir Jun 12 #1

I don't believe the world should worry about China's lead. OKIsItJustMe Jun 12 #2

Thanks for the "Appeal to Authority" fallacy. NNadir Jun 12 #3

You use "Appeal to Authority" all of the time OKIsItJustMe Jun 13 #4

One cannot excuse the failure of so called "renewable energy" by hiding behind hydro NNadir Jun 13 #5

"Wind" rivals "nuclear" by itself OKIsItJustMe Jun 13 #6

No, what I noticed was the land and material cost and the moral cost to NEARLY equal one physically small plant. NNadir Jun 14 #9

Figure 1.14 OKIsItJustMe Jun 13 #7

Um, um, um, for decades, while setting the planet to flames, antinukes have been unable to distinguish peak... NNadir Jun 14 #10

"their many distortions and lies" OKIsItJustMe Jun 14 #12

I'm saying the there are dunderheads who can't INTERPRET data. I trust DATA from the EIA, not the soothsaying... NNadir Jun 14 #15

Oh, and do tell us all how all that installed wind and solar junk is doing at addressing extreme global heating. NNadir Jun 14 #11

It's addressing it about as well as nuclear power is OKIsItJustMe Jun 14 #13

Floating Offshore Wind to Hydrogen thought crime Jun 14 #8

Yes! This is a technology that's been in development. OKIsItJustMe Jun 14 #14