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Bluetus

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2. I wold not call it a scam
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 09:54 PM
Aug 2

Any more than EVs are a scam if they are charged from a grid that includes fossil fuels.

All these points of progress come in steps. If the hydrogen blending proves to work acceptably at scale, then that will invite more investments in solar and wind that will be directed toward extracting hydrogen.

The US installed 50 GW of solar in 2024. China installed 277 GW. So let's not attack China. They are WAAAAAAAAAY ahead of us. I would say your comments align perfectly with what the US fossil fuel companies would say.

And not only is China pursuing green goals much more aggressively than the US, this is placing China in a fundamentally superior position economically. If these trends continue, China's costs for energy over the next 30 years will be less than half what Americans have to pay.

We already pay twice what anybody pays for pharmaceuticals and other health care. What happens when energy has that same disparity? Energy and health care make up about 1/3 of our total economy.

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Despite the misleading slick ad from the fossil fuel industry, China's hydrogen is overwhelmingly made from fossil fuels NNadir Aug 2 #1
I wold not call it a scam Bluetus Aug 2 #2
Europe has been working on this for some time OKIsItJustMe Aug 2 #4
And then, this article about "hydrogen powder" Bluetus Aug 3 #6
They make a comparison to "green ammonia" OKIsItJustMe Aug 3 #9
I'm not impressed by the dishonest use of units of POWER to substitute for units of ENERGY. NNadir Aug 3 #5
Sorry, I don't follow your rant. Bluetus Aug 3 #7
Generally people who can't "follow" this sort of thing endorse solar and wind. NNadir Aug 3 #8
Once again, I cannpt follow your stream of riddles. Bluetus Aug 3 #10
They're not "riddles." They're DATA and historical reports on the cost of energy during Dunkleflaute. NNadir Aug 3 #11
Post removed Post removed Aug 3 #12
Your first simile comes closest OKIsItJustMe Aug 3 #14
This "conversation," such as it is, is concluded. NNadir Aug 3 #15
I will take your challenge. OKIsItJustMe Aug 3 #13
Thank you kindly for this nice succinct correct statement of my views. NNadir Aug 19 #17
I'm glad you feel I accurately summarized your views OKIsItJustMe Aug 19 #18
System Analysis: Hydrogen production from nuclear energy OKIsItJustMe Aug 19 #19
Thank you for sharing, but I have many hundreds of papers on various thermochemical hydrogen cycles going... NNadir Aug 20 #20
I also have been familiar with "Nuclear Hydrogen" for decades OKIsItJustMe Aug 20 #21
The highlighted statement or a variant is similar if not identical to those... NNadir Aug 21 #22
"Soothsaying" OKIsItJustMe Aug 21 #23
"... object to me continuously producing the following table ..." OKIsItJustMe Aug 4 #16
Hydrogen can be mixed with "natural gas" much as ethanol can be mixed with gasoline OKIsItJustMe Aug 2 #3
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