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NNadir

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3. I'd sure hate to be next to that piece of wasteful shit if it rolled over, particularly if it were subject to...
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 09:06 PM
Mar 2025

...metal fatigue resulting from hydrogen embrittlement.

It would be safer and cleaner and far less stupid and destructive if it simply burned the natural gas from which the hydrogen was made, although it's quite possible, given that it is in China, that it was made from the steam reforming of coal, since the latter accounts for the bulk of Chinese hydrogen.

In any case, it's a filthy machine and nothing more than an unconscionable effort to greenwash fossil fuels.

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