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2. Um, sorry, but storing fossil fuel energy as hydrogen is equally as stupid, wasteful and dirty.
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 03:56 PM
Jul 16

We do have hydrogen plants blow up already, and compared to batteries hydrogen is a trivial storage medium. Happily the hydrogen scam, which is now half a century old, will go nowhere.

All forms of energy storage, even the far better form of thermal storage, waste energy. This is a consequence of the laws of thermodynamics which the fossil fuel salespeople who come here to rebrand fossil fuels as "hydrogen" ignore in their contempt for science.

The big lie behind all of this, batteries, and even worse, hydrogen, is that the world is awash in vast excesses of so called "renewable energy." It isn't even close. So called "renewable energy" is a trivial and unsustainable form of energy that merely serves as a distraction from the dire realities of fossil fuels, sold here with hydrogen greenwashing.

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