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

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10. The confusion of soothsaying with reality is why we're in this horrible mess.

I wasn't living in 2010 in 1990, although all kinds of soothsaying went on in 1990, then in 2000, then in 2010, now in 2023.

My whole adult life has been involved in this absurd soothsaying; I used to be dumb enough to accept it, which I regret.

In 2050, by the way, the second law of thermodynamics will still apply, and the manufacture of hydrogen will still involve exergy destruction if electrolysis is involved. (There are subtle ways involving high temperatures by which exergy might be captured, but any discussion of them would in and of itself be soothsaying, to which I object.)

I'll be dead in 2050, and I am comfortable enough with soothsaying to say that my generation will be cursed for what it did.