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eppur_se_muova

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1. Hydrogen is not a power *source*, it is only a medium of exchange.
Thu May 6, 2021, 11:49 PM
May 2021

There are no hydrogen mines. Most H2 is made from natural gas, and CO2 is the inevitable byproduct.

H2 is "green" only if it can be made by means which do not produce CO2. There are certainly ways to do this, but H2 is not inherently "green", or even nonpolluting -- all too likely, the early deployments will only enable the end users to avoid emissions locally by using infrastructure which produces emissions elsewhere.

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