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...marketing cartoons and reality.
I've posted, from the primary scientific literature lots and lots and lots of valid information about, um, reality, only to be asked to watch more insipid cartoons.
I repeatedly make reference to the near half a century of hydrogen bullshit, which materially, if not in terms of marketing technique is substantially unchanged since the 1970s.
To be perfectly honest, when I was a stupid kid - and I certainly was one - I thought wasting energy to make hydrogen was a good idea, mostly because I was so badly educated as to not understand the implications of physical laws.
Now, the current hyping and basically quasi-religious faith in this idiot scheme will not go away. There are always plenty of rubes who will believe anything.
Nevertheless, all the marketing in the world cannot convert a rabid squirrel into a thoroughbred race horse, and all the slick videos in the world can't make hydrogen into a primary source of energy.
In the next two weeks, the concentration of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide will once again exceed 420 ppm. As I noted elsewhere recently, when the Journal of Hydrogen Energy was founded in 1976 that level was almost 100 ppm lower. Part of the reason is that people carried on about silly ideas in the face of reality. Recently, not that slick marketeers read scientific literature - their contempt for it is legion - I pointed out that about 8 Exajoules of energy on this planet goes to making ammonia, the major application for the manufacture of hydrogen, in China by the steam reformation of the world's dirtiest fossil fuel, coal. Putting pictures of wind turbines and solar cells next to hydrogen bullshit is an obvious affront to reality, because after trillions of dollars squandered on it, solar and wind combined produced just 11 Exajoules of energy in 2021, in a year where world energy demand was 624 Exajoules.
Hydrogen energy is not worth the coal and gas and oil used to power the computers to hype it, never mind the energy wasted to manufacture it for purposes other than making ammonia and related chemicals.
From my perspective, every hydrogen vehicle hyped for which metal and energy resources are squandered is a threat to sustainability.
I don't expect to not see more such postings; religions are always hard to shake. But religions merely generate complacency and inaction in general. The task before humanity is on an unimaginable scale, and I do wish - not that I expect it to happen - that people who chant stale nonsense would simply get out of the way.
At the very least, such people could show a shred of evidence of having at least once, of having opened a science book and read the contents.
The matter is serious:
Week beginning on January 01, 2023: 419.31 ppm
Weekly value from 1 year ago: 417.55 ppm
Weekly value from 10 years ago: 394.96 ppm
Last updated: January 10, 2023
Weekly average CO2 at Mauna Loa
When I hear this kind of crap, I wish I could channel Joseph Welch.
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