The assholes in Germany, had to close their hydrogen plants because they could no longer buy dangerous natural gas from that bastard Putin whose war they financed.
I wrote not so long ago, with something called "references" about what hydrogen hype is all about:
A Giant Climate Lie: When they're selling hydrogen, what they're really selling is fossil fuels.
I certainly am well aware that antinukes run around all the time advocating for tearing the shit out of the planet, digging up the last best ores, converting huge stretches of land for industrial parks for wind and solar crap that will be lucky to last 25 years before becoming landfill. I attribute the rising rates of the collapse of the planetary atmosphere to this affectation.
Very clearly the people calling for this hold all future generations in extreme contempt.
They show up here often, although we haven't seen the fossil fuel marketeer with all the slick videos rebranding his, her or their product as "hydrogen," much recently.
It doesn't matter.
The hype for making this crap even worse by claiming that wasting energy to make hydrogen makes it all that much more obscene.
It is true that the world food supply depends on the Haber Bosch process. Since almost no hydrogen is made on a meaningful scale by electrolysis, and where it is, the electricity largely comes, as it does all over the world, from the combustion of dangerous fossil fuels (about which antinukes couldn't give a rat's ass), the Haber Bosch process is overwhelming dependent on dangerous fossil fuels. Fertilizer use for agriculture in one of many issues that drive the collapse of the planetary atmosphere.
There are many known thermochemical hydrogen cycles, accessible regrettably, only by using high temperatures. Their development has been problematic and challenging which is not a reason to stop working on them. As reported by Vaclav Smil in his still worthy to read book, Enriching the Earth (2000), the development of the Haber Bosch process was essentially a problem in materials science engineering, the role the chemical engineer Bosch played in industrializing Haber's lab based science. (The Haber Bosch process requires heat to run.)
Thermochemical hydrogen cycles are also materials science problems; the chemistry is well known. In fact, high temperature nuclear reactors, which are the only sustainable means of producing industrial heat, are materials science problems as well. I am proud to say, my son is involved in working to solve these problems, rather than piddling around with people who like to gloat about how their ignorance prevented nuclear energy from doing what it might have done, happily chanting that it is too late for nuclear to save what might have been saved and restore what is subject to restoration.
This insipid gloating disgusts me.
As for now, it is a profound thermodynamic issue that makes electrolysis to produce hydrogen a terrible idea, a frankly appalling idea, not that this reality, remaining intractable for many decades since the first industrialization of the Haber Bosch process more than 110 years ago, is likely to make people stop carrying on with "green hydrogen" bullshit. Electricity by its very nature is a thermodynamically degraded form of energy, and other than in lightening, is not a primary energy source on this planet.
Hydrogen, whether produced directly from fossil fuels, or indirectly by combusting fossil fuels to generate electricity, is a dirty commodity, since it requires largely dirty energy to make it. Half a century of "green hydrogen" bullshit handed out to the contrary has not changed this reality.
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