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Ed Ireland's avatar

Great comment, Tucos's Child. Thanks for reading and posting. I listened to 2 days of testimony this week on the EPA proposed rules on fossil fuel power generation, and almost every person testifying said that EPA should drop their support of hydrogen and CCS because they are unproven and dangerous technologies. Of course, they supported EPAs rules that will eliminate coal and nat gas generation. Ed

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None of this addresses the fact that hydrogen can permeate solid steel, making it brittle and causing it to fracture. No matter how you produce it, transporting and storing hydrogen is an absolute nightmare and no one has any plausible explanations as to how it could be done commercially at scale.

The companies don't care because leaked hydrogen means consumers must buy more hydrogen, and broken equipment forces them to buy new equipment. It's a capitalist's wet dream. Unclear how "sustainable" it is, though.

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