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4. Hydrogen will not be close to being "emissions free" in the lifetime of anyone...
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 07:06 AM
Aug 2016

...now living.

The overwhelming majority of it is made from dangerous natural gas, more than 98%

There is a huge truck fleet now operating on dangerous natural gas, and in the case of the garbage trucks of the Waste Management company, landfill gas which would otherwise leach into the atmosphere as a potent greenhouse gas.

When methane which is easier to store is not converted into hydrogen, a great deal of energy that would otherwise be lost in the transformation is not lost.

The "hydrogen vehicles" fantasy that's been running for several decades now is just silly and useless.

The only result is that carbon dioxide rates of increase have reached unbelievable levels never seen before.

Have a nice day today.

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