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NNadir

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1. Electricity, despite the destruction of vast ecosystems for so called "renewable energy" is a dirty thermodynamically...
Sun Jan 19, 2025, 06:35 PM
Jan 19

...degraded form of energy. The fossil fuel industries' efforts to greenwash themselves by claiming that filthy hydrogen is "green" is dishonest in the extreme.

On this planet, very little hydrogen is made - a trivial amount - by electrolysis, and that which is so made depends on electricity overwhelmingly produced using the combustion of dangerous fossil fuels and the dumping of the waste directly into the planetary atmosphere where it is killing it.



The caption:

Figure 1. Global current sources of H2 production (a), and H2 consumption sectors (b).


Progress on Catalyst Development for the Steam Reforming of Biomass and Waste Plastics Pyrolysis Volatiles: A Review Laura Santamaria, Gartzen Lopez, Enara Fernandez, Maria Cortazar, Aitor Arregi, Martin Olazar, and Javier Bilbao, Energy & Fuels 2021 35 (21), 17051-17084]
I referred to this graphic, and reproduced it, discussing a paper in the journal I discussed above here: The current sources and uses of hydrogen.



Happily the in the long history of hydrogen bullshit, now having extended over a period of half a century, has failed to make this scam viable, although the bullshit has never stopped, waned from time to time, but never stopped.

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