This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

  • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    pshh. what a waste. all you have to do is dunk your head underwater and breathe in the oxygen.

    bam: two free hydrogen.

  • Omgboom@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    Don’t they know that government funds are meant for corporate bailouts??

  • MonkCanatella@slrpnk.net
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    hydrogen is just a fossil fuel investment. yeah let’s just keep pouring money and resources into hydrogen, which requires natural gas for production in 95% of cases. We’ll get to green hydrogen later, after we’ve left you with the bag

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    NIMBYs everywhere, go figure.

    The “blue hydrogen”, “produced from natural gas which is then sequestered” bit is a ridiculous stretch though. Forcing byproducts back into the ground is one of the “justifications”/“pros” for fracking.

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    You can’t ask the government to drive innovation and take on difficult challenges if people keep labelling everything that might not work out a boondoggle. The IRA was like $800 billion. It’s okay if 7 is spent on a longshot.