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US to Cancel Billions for West Coast Hydrogen Hubs Amid Shutdown (www.bloomberg.com)
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[-] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

That happens to be fossil fuel propaganda for e-fuels.

No, it doesn't, because it's my own original thought and I'm not a fossil fuel propaganist.

I'm not talking about fucking cracking natural gas; I'm talking about building an electrolysis plant running on renewable electricity next to a former refinery doing all the hydrocarbon chemistry that has been adaptively reused to make synthetic fuel. The hydrogen is not supposed to be coming from petroleum!

Furthermore these are net 0 fuels which are not good enough, or as good as green fuels.

On the contrary, carbon neutral is absolutely good enough. Why the hell wouldn't it be?!

Again, H2 or Ammonia, are the right long term fuels.

Again, you're wrong about H~2~ because throwing out all the liquid fuel infrastructure we already have to switch to the most difficult-to-handle choice short of something hypergolic is just fundamentally stupid.

I don't know anything about ammonia; maybe it really is the right solution. It's kind of a different topic, though. Do you want to start talking about that instead?

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