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NNadir

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5. Don't worry. Be happy. Now they're rebranding fossil fuels as "hydrogen."

Reply to Bundbuster (Original post)

Mon Jul 29, 2024, 06:43 PM

Jul 2024

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

Exxon rebranding fossil fuels as hydrogen:

The marketing is very cute, and slick. It often comes with pictures of vast stretches of wilderness industrialized as solar "farms" and pictures of electrolyzers, as if that was how hydrogen was really made on an industrial scale.

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Oil companies sold the public on a fake climate solution -- and swindled taxpayers out of billions [View all] Bundbuster Jul 2024 OP

This is so infuriating. They should get a similar treatment as the tobacco companies but with a much higher price to pay Dave Bowman Jul 2024 #1

A much higher price to pay indeed - they're not just killing people, Bundbuster Jul 2024 #3

I'm sorry OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 #6

And we're driving less, and smaller cars, even silly little beep beep cars, am I right? progree Jul 2024 #7

You know, Detroit put a lot of R&D into making more efficient engines OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 #9

And we subsidize this industry with BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars. Think. Again. Jul 2024 #2

The problem is obvious: oil companies will do anything to distract from the fact that extracting and burning Martin68 Jul 2024 #4

Don't worry. Be happy. Now they're rebranding fossil fuels as "hydrogen." NNadir Jul 2024 #5

As with many things, it's not quite that simple OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 #10

I understand the Haber Bosch process very, very, very well and have written on it extensively and accessed... NNadir Jul 2024 #11

I hate to break it to you, but... OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 #12

Well, since it hasn't worked, isn't working and won't work, and is, in my view, just another fossil fuel marketing... NNadir Jul 2024 #13

Without carbon sequestration there will be no history to forgive us OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 #14

Thank you for restating your opinion. NNadir Jul 2024 #15

I cited the Scientific position of the IPCC OKIsItJustMe Jul 2024 #16

Bookmarking /nt progree Jul 2024 #17

I've been saying CC was a distraction, a hoax for years. Brenda Jul 2024 #8