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2. I like that term, "hydrogen zombie." We could avoid it by explaining, in the simplest form, the physical laws...
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 05:49 PM
Nov 15

...of thermodynamics in high school.

I went to what appeared to be a pretty good high school when I was a kid, but there was no discussion, as I recall - I confess it was a long time ago - the laws of thermodynamics.

I recall that in college it all seemed arcane, while many other subjects didn't seem so.

Any money spent on hydrogen as a consumer product is squandered money. It is, however, an important chemical intermediate (to be handled by highly trained chemical plant engineers) on which the world food supply depends, as a source of ammonia.

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