Hydrogen cars 'are not the enemy' of electric vehicles as calls grow for more UK refuelling stations

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3. I am really, tired, as we just passed 430 ppm of concentrations CO2, of the substitution of the word "could" for "is."

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Wind and solar energy are not green, and not sustainable because of their grotesque material and land demands. Making the already unacceptable material, financial and land demands worse by claiming that this reactionary and useless form of expensive energy worse by pretending the second of law of thermodynamics is without consequence is a horrible fantasy.

There are not enough minerals on this planet to support this fantasy of returning for our energy supplies to dependence on the weather at the precise time we have destroyed the stability of the weather. We do have antinuke morons publishing - incredibly in major scientific journals - that the solution to try to ameliorate the awful environmental demands of so called "renewable energy" is to tear the shit out of the ocean floor to get "critical minerals:"

Sustainable minerals and metals for a low-carbon future

Subtitle:

Policy coordination is needed for global supply chains.

Appalling bullshit, that.

We have already a developing understanding of this failed enterprise - with the awful result that people foolishly believe in batteries and hydrogen as if they will address climate issues - and its destructive impact on terrestrial species, which will only get worse:

Impact of So Called "Renewable Energy" on Biodiversity (Not That We Really Care).

We are already tearing the shit out of the benthic ecosystem for the useless enterprise of offshore wind energy, spewing all kinds of polymers, metals, and other garbage, fed and maintained by diesel powered barges, for crap that will be landfill (or seafloor garbage) in less than 20 years. We''ve industrialized vast areas of wilderness for this failed, multitrillion dollar scheme. Now we're going to tear the shit out of the ocean floor because tiresome fools like Benny Sovacool are afraid that someone somewhere might die from exposure to trace radiation?

I'm an old man. When I was young and stupid and poorly educated half a century ago, I thought solar hydrogen was a good clean idea. I grew up and took the time and effort and trouble to educate myself. I've been listening to this bullshit for half a century.

Right now, not in some vast amorphous could be so called "renewable energy" universe, a putative so called "renewable energy" nirvana that did not come, is not here, and won't come, hydrogen is overwhelmingly made from dangerous fossil fuels with exergy destruction, a thermodynamic, and thus environmental, nightmare. It is an essential captive industrial reagent for the manufacture of ammonia, on which the world food supplies depend. Rather than childish bourgeois toys like hydrogen cars, hydrogen trucks, hydrogen lawn mowers, and hydrogen kitchen blenders, we ought to see if we can make industrial hydrogen sustainable. It is possible to do this I think, using process intensification with nuclear heat, feasible, but tearing the shit out of the ocean floor doesn't cut it.

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

It's a little too late however to save much of what is left to save, or even less likely, to restore what can be restored. The planet is in flames. We will hit 500 ppm of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide in the 2040's. There will be hell to pay.

History will not forgive us, nor should it.

Have a nice weekend.