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3. Did you know?
Sat Jun 4, 2022, 12:10 AM
Jun 2022

Did you know how China makes hydrogen at a thermodynamic loss using dangerous fossil fuels and dumping the waste into the planetary atmosphere?

If one cannot face reality, it's magical thinking. If no amount of information can change one's mind, it's magical thinking.

Thirty years ago, almost all of the world's hydrogen was made by reforming dangerous natural gas and dumping carbon dioxide into the planetary atmosphere, driving climate change. Then China entered the picture, with this result:



The caption:

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


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Magical thinking would be cute if it was just carny barker three card Monty games played for fun, but regrettably in this case it's far worse than that.

Magical thinking kills people: Death Toll In British Columbia Heatwave in 2021 Is Said to Have Been Nearly 600 People.

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