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1. For the last time: Hydrogen Fuel Cells are not "Clean Energy" unless solar or wind is used.
Tue Sep 30, 2014, 06:29 PM
Sep 2014

People need to be reminded that Hydrogen is not an energy source; it takes another energy source to create it before it can be used.

So, like electricity, hydrogen is an "energy carrier", not a source, and it can therefore be carbon intensive or renewable, but it's not necessarily clean and it sure as hell isn't "zero emissions" unless the power used to create it has zero emissions.

Sure, as a portable way to power construction lights, for example, it's less noxious than diesel generators. Fine, but it's carbon footprint isn't automatically "zero" unless one can trace it's production back to a zero emission source.

This is bad journalism, non-science, propaganda.

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