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2. The Germans are having a terrible time making hydrogen for serious use, never mind stupid toxic toy cars.
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 01:05 PM
Jul 28

The reason is that their pal Putin cut off their natural gas, the dirty fuel from which was used in Germany to make filthy hydrogen. They could have emulated the Chinese and made hydrogen from coal, but instead they just shut their ammonia plants.

These fuel cell toys advertised here by the fossil fuel industry working to rebrand their products as "hydrogen," have fluoropolymers as solid phase electrolytes, a source of one of the most problematic of all pollutants, the PFAS class of contaminants.

Of course the fossil fuel industry supporting this unconscionable effort at rebranding itself as "green hydrogen" doesn't give a rat's ass about environmental issues which is, of course, why they lie about how hydrogen is made. It's made from fossil fuels with exergy destruction.

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