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NNadir

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1. Aircraft are dirty enough using fossil fuels. Using hydrogen made from fossil fuels will make...

Reply to Caribbeans (Original post)

Fri Aug 4, 2023, 05:38 PM

Aug 2023

...them even dirtier, although it will redistribute the inevitable health effects on the poor, since the chemical plants in which hydrogen is made from dirty fossil fuels tend to be in poor areas.

The climate cost of this dirty technology will of course, fall on all humanity, since making hydrogen from fossil fuels destroys the exergy recoverable from dangerous fossil fuels, requiring the use of more of them.

This of course is the point of fossil fuel salespeople and salesbots rebranding fossil fuels as "hydrogen" in a bait and switch game.

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

All the cheap marketing videos in the world cannot make hydrogen "green." It's a filthy fuel.

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Hydrogen-powered flight is closer to takeoff than ever - Popular Science [View all] Caribbeans Aug 2023 OP

Aircraft are dirty enough using fossil fuels. Using hydrogen made from fossil fuels will make... NNadir Aug 2023 #1

It's wonderful that this is being tested but we are decades away from any adoption. Small or widespr tymorial Aug 2023 #2

"we are decades away from any adoption. Small or widespr" Caribbeans Aug 2023 #3