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

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12. It is obscene to make hydrogen for fuel purposes when fossil fuels dominate the energy supply.

I consider it a crime against humanity in fact.

It is tantamount to announcing that one is organizing an expensive party to celebrate one's cure when one is terminally ill, spending all one's resources on it, because one earnestly believes that praying to the Virgin Mary will result in a cure.

I read the scientific literature every damned day, for the record, including all kinds of LCA papers.

Anyone, and I do mean anyone, pushing this half century old line of shit is selling fossil fuels, accelerating climate change, and valuing wishful thinking over a very dire and increasingly exigent reality.

No amount of absurd apologetics and wishful thinking will change this reality.

If some day, primary energy is clean - which is to say 100% nuclear - consumer hydrogen will still be a terrible idea because of its horrible physical properties and chemical incompatibility, although captive hydrogen, as is the case with the 94 million tons made each year now, albeit overwhelmingly with vast amounts of exergy destruction of the fossil fuel source, will still be an important chemical intermediate.

Consumer fantasies generally suck and are based on extreme ignorance in general, and the cheap advertising put forth by fossil fuel sales people and sales bots here and elsewhere who are attempting to rebrand fossil fuels as "green." It's a fucking lie.

Numbers don't lie: A Giant Climate Lie: When they're selling hydrogen, what they're really selling is fossil fuels.