...large scale battery storage plants on this planet, vastly more, than there are the hydrogen facilities that fossil fuel greenwashers are trying to sell here, pretending that hydrogen all comes from the useless so called "renewable energy" industry, the popularity of which has done nothing to address extreme global heating, the consequences of which are now being observed worldwide.
It is the case that even when hydrogen is being monitored by trained chemical engineers, hydrogen the plants blow up.
Here for example, is a hydrogen explosion at a chemical plant for silicon chemistry that killed 4 people:
Hydrogen blast led to deaths at US silicones plant
The accident killed four people, which by the way, is four more people than radiation leaks at Fukushima killed. Our hydrogen fossil fuel greenwashing salespeople here love to carry on about Fukushima, but don't give a shit about the 7 million people killed by the air pollution generated the fossil fuel industry, which supplies practically all of the hydrogen on this planet.
The data is here: Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (Lancet Volume 396, Issue 10258, 17–23 October 2020, Pages 1223-1249).
The top five risks for attributable deaths for females were high SBP (5·25 million [95% UI 4·49–6·00] deaths, or 20·3% [17·5–22·9] of all female deaths in 2019), dietary risks (3·48 million [2·78–4·37] deaths, or 13·5% [10·8–16·7] of all female deaths in 2019), high FPG (3·09 million [2·40–3·98] deaths, or 11·9% [9·4–15·3] of all female deaths in 2019), air pollution (2·92 million [2·53–3·33] deaths or 11·3% [10·0–12·6] of all female deaths in 2019), and high BMI (2·54 million [1·68–3·56] deaths or 9·8% [6·5–13·7] of all female deaths in 2019). For males, the top five risks differed slightly. In 2019, the leading Level 2 risk factor for attributable deaths globally in males was tobacco (smoked, second-hand, and chewing), which accounted for 6·56 million (95% UI 6·02–7·10) deaths (21·4% [20·5–22·3] of all male deaths in 2019), followed by high SBP, which accounted for 5·60 million (4·90–6·29) deaths (18·2% [16·2–20·1] of all male deaths in 2019). The third largest Level 2 risk factor for attributable deaths among males in 2019 was dietary risks (4·47 million [3·65–5·45] deaths, or 14·6% [12·0–17·6] of all male deaths in 2019) followed by air pollution (ambient particulate matter and ambient ozone pollution, accounting for 3·75 million [3·31–4·24] deaths (12·2% [11·0–13·4] of all male deaths in 2019), and then high FPG (3·14 million [2·70–4·34] deaths, or 11·1% [8·9–14·1] of all male deaths in 2019).
Fossil fuels kill people on a vast scale. Battery fires, even given the broad international use of battery devices, do not. It is the
charging of batteries that is most dangerous. Even though consumer hydrogen would never be safe were it a real thing, rather than the object of slick videos produced by marketing teams, it is the
manufacture of hydrogen that is most dangerous, because it is entirely, on any scale that matters, dependent of fossil fuels.
It would be less than honest to argue that fossil fuel sales people looking to greenwash fossil fuels actually give a rat's ass about the dangers of battery fires, which are, in fact, a real problem. Of course, the "batteries will make 'renewable energy' reliable," like the "hydrogen will make 'renewable energy' reliable," is all connected with claiming that so called "renewable energy" is a workable environmentally benign and desirable scheme, whereas the evidence - the main example of which is that the planet is on fire - clearly and unambiguously shows that so called "renewable energy" is useless for preventing environmental catastrophe, said catastrophe now being underway. As for reliability,
nothing can make so called "renewable energy" reliable, clean or sustainable.
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