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1. It's terrible news for the world at large. Hydrogen is a fossil fuel scam. I note, with disgust, the hydrogen fuel...
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 05:54 PM
Jun 11

...cells are loaded with fluorocarbons, but the real problem is the thermodynamics of hydrogen.

It's not like the fossil fuel industry, in seeking to rebrand itself as "hydrogen," in a bait and switch gives a flying fuck for the environment though; it's pretty fucking clear they don't.

Our "friends" at Exxon, selling the scam:



The effort to make "hydrogen" a thing with the bandwagon fallacy is not just stupidly criminal, it's nonsensical, as it has been for the last 50 years.

It isn't much of a "bandwagon" though. Hydrogen toys have been around for decades without ever becoming mainstream. The horrible thermodynamics, the dependency on fossil fuels, the appalling physical properties of hydrogen are the reason.

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