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stu54 t1_iyetdds wrote

Reply to comment by PolyDipsoManiac in The days of the hydrogen car are already over by Sorin61

Hydrogen is good because deuterium enrichment has hydrogen as a byproduct. Hydrogen works if fusion power works. That's part of the long term justification for hydrogen tech.

If you don't buy that reason, then hydrogen is a strategy for big corporations to keep energy production centralized. Batteries can be charged with basic wind or solar systems. Hydrogen will always require industrial scale and logistics.

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stu54 t1_ixr5k6z wrote

Reply to comment by Gorman2462 in Polarization around climate change is growing on Twitter. Since COP21, engagement with climate sceptics has grown 4 times faster than pro-climate content. At the same time, criticism of the COP summits as a failure has grown 5-fold. by fractalfalcon

Yeah, that's cause capitalists control all government policy, so nothing will pass that isn't designed to consolidate their power. That means policies won't be effective at curbing climate disaster. You will not be able to live without the corporations. Voting and protesting will not have any influence on that outcome.

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stu54 t1_iwjv7fn wrote

Reply to comment by Wagamaga in Research shows land that often lies fallow or is poor in soil quality — across the United States would provide enough biomass feedstock to meet the liquid fuel demands of the U.S. aviation sector fully from biofuels, an amount expected to reach 30 billion gallons per year by 2040. by Wagamaga

Lets monoculture all of the wild land so to eliminate the entire ecosystem. Then we can exploit all of the land forever with zero consequences.

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stu54 t1_iw01jr9 wrote

Reply to What will be future like next 5 years, 10 or 15 years. by nowaysingh

Its tough, this economic downturn is going to have to last a long time to kill off the defunct buisinesses that PPP and other govt bailouts propped up. In 5 years we will start to see the new direction. Maybe the same old fossil fuels will bounce back as they will still have capital after everyone else runs out. The climate is gonna take another 30+ years to reach a totally fucked state.

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stu54 t1_ivz8n0d wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Negligible climatic impact of the recent methane leak from the Nord Stream pipelines - Methane emissions related to the recent explosions would result in an increase in the average global surface air temperature of just 0.000018 degrees Celsius over a 20-year period. by avogadros_number

That is the point of the article. Some people got worried, but anyone familiar with the scope of the climate situation knew that that gas leak was a drop in the bucket.

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stu54 t1_ivee4fm wrote

Reply to comment by YpsilonY in Dutch pilot project for hydrogen heated homes allowed to begin by alex20_202020

Also, storage is a problem. Natural gas can be liquefied and fed into a distribution system as needed. Hydrogen requires much more extreme pressures and temperatures for that.

You might think hydrogen could just be produced on demand then, but on demand power is already the biggest problem with post fossil fuel energy systems.

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