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NNadir

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2. Why not neither? Hydrogen is overwhelmingly made from fossil fuels with exergy destruction of those fuels.

Reply to Caribbeans (Original post)

Sun Aug 17, 2025, 08:06 AM

Aug 17

Why on Earth, would anyone advocate for burning more fossil fuels?

Oh I know, for money. No wonder we have all the fossil fuel ads around here trying to rebrand this filth as "green hydrogen."

A Giant Climate Lie: When they're selling hydrogen, what they're really selling is fossil fuels.

Fuel cells rely on fluoropolymers as solid electrolytes, representing one of the most intractable environmental problem on this planet, not that the fossil fuel industry gives a rats ass about the environment. Never have, never will. Fuel cells are even worse than direct combustion of hydrogen, itself an unsupportable, since hydrogen is a dirty fuel.

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Hydrogen Engine or Hydrogen Fuel Cell? Why Not Both? Volvo Trucks takes us inside its two-pronged development strategy [View all] Caribbeans Aug 16 OP

Have you every searched "white hydrogen"? multigraincracker Aug 16 #1

Yeah. This bullshit is also hyped here by the fossil fuel industry, drill baby drill. It's garbage thinking. NNadir Aug 17 #3

Why not neither? Hydrogen is overwhelmingly made from fossil fuels with exergy destruction of those fuels. NNadir Aug 17 #2

The beauty of science is that it changes with new information. multigraincracker Aug 17 #4

Really? "White Hydrogen" is going to matter? We'll drill the fuck of the planet and use it all up to be green? NNadir Aug 17 #7

Not everyone sees it as a fossil fuel. multigraincracker Aug 17 #5

Yeah. I know. The marketing of hydrogen as "clean energy" has been a disastrously successful scheme. NNadir Aug 17 #6

Making hydrogen may require it. Finding a natural source may require less stress on the atmosphere. multigraincracker Aug 17 #8

I'm not sanguine about eliminating 6 billion humans so we can all live in a hydrogen nirvana. NNadir Aug 17 #9

How theories change over time. multigraincracker Aug 17 #10