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2. It's too bad that BASF had to shut so many hydrogen plants because they couldn't get gas from their pal Putin.
Sat May 9, 2026, 07:45 AM
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I think they may go back to Putin now that Putin's pal, the orange pedophile in the White House, has helped him along by causing the shutting of the Straits of Hormuz.

Germany, of course, funded Putin's war on Ukraine.

In Germany, as is the case everywhere on the planet, hydrogen is overwhelmingly made from the steam reformation of dangerous fossil fuels with exergy destruction.

Of course, the Germans, to excuse the awful results of their decision to replace its nuclear plants with fossil fuels, build gas plants and lie that "someday" they'll be powered by hydrogen.

Hydrogen has always been used, in the half a century of bullshit about it, to greenwash fossil fuels. The appalling thing about this disgusting marketing scheme is that just to sell fossil fuels, the energy value of the fossil fuels is reduced, meaning that for no other reason than to market fossil fuels, one needs to use more fossil fuels than if they simply burned them directly without the intermediate steam reformation step.

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

I certainly hope no German farmers are killed by this idiot scheme, and if they are, I hope that's its fewer than have been killed by exploding hydrogen buses. Being burned to death by an exploding tire sounds like a horrible way to die.

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