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NNadir

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1. The bullshit never stops. As always, in China, as is the case everywhere on the planet, hydrogen is made...
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 03:33 AM
Friday

....from fossil fuels.

This has always been the case, and always will be the case, no matter how many stupid slick videos are produced.

One feature of antinukes is that they are indifferent to, and are in fact pushing for in this and other cases for fossil fuels.

This is why their so called "renewable energy will save us" bullshit is a horrible scam that has left the planet in flames with millions, many in China, dying from air pollution each year, while they insipidly cry "radioactivity" in contempt for science and humanity.

A Giant Climate Lie: When they're selling hydrogen, what they're really selling is fossil fuels.

Subsidizing Grid-Based Electrolytic Hydrogen Will Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Coal Dominated Power Systems Liqun Peng, Yang Guo, Shangwei Liu, Gang He, and Denise L. Mauzerall Environmental Science & Technology 2024 58 (12), 5187-5195

The text is clear enough.

From the introductory text:

... Currently, nearly all hydrogen in China is either produced directly from fossil fuels (55% from coal gasification and 14% from steam methane reforming (SMR)) or as a byproduct of petroleum refining (28%), with only 1% coming from water electrolysis. (2) Producing 1 kg of coal- or SMR-based hydrogen emits roughly 19 and 10 kg of CO2, respectively. (3) In 2020, hydrogen production from fossil fuels in China emitted approximately 322Tg of CO2, equivalent to 25% of total CO2 emissions from industrial processes, a number expected to rise with increasing hydrogen demand. (4) Industrial processes include production of nonmetallic mineral products, chemical, and metal products, as well as production and consumption of halocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride. (4)
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The bold, italics and underlining is mine.

EST: Chinese Hydrogen Production Is Making Climate Change Worse.


There are people - I'd like to be recorded among them - who can see through shallow lies.



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