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1. In Europe, as is the case everywhere else on the planet, hydrogen is derived from dangerous fossil fuels.
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 07:47 AM
Saturday

This obscene article notes as much, handing out the bullshit about carbon capture and sequestration, like hydrogen itself, a bullshit effort to greenwash fossil fuels.

Directly from the fossil fuel rebranded as hydrogen ad in the OP:

...will formally include both blue hydrogen (natural gas with carbon capture)...


Pretending that hydrogen is made by wasting clean nuclear energy using electrolysis is also an economic and environmental nonstarter, since electricity is thermodynamically degraded and electrolysis, which further thermodynamically degrades energy, is thus environmentally expensive. The purpose of nuclear electricity - which the fossil fuel rebranded as hydrogen marketing team here hates since nuclear energy is the only form of energy that reduces reliance on fossil fuels - is to eliminate fossil fuels, not to help sell them as hydrogen.

There is bullshit marketing, and then, as I noted last night, reality: Unable to Afford Platinum for Its Fuel Cells, Alstom Switches Its Trains From Hydrogen Back to Diesel.

Nice try, fossil fuel rebranding team, but as usual, more greenwashing fossil fuels.

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