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Environment & Energy

NNadir

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1. Hydrogen is overwhelmingly made from fossil fuels with exergy destruction.

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Thu Jun 19, 2025, 10:38 AM

Jun 19

It follows from the laws of thermodynamics that the shell game that hydrogen represents is actually worse than burning the fossil fuel directly.

Sometimes the right thing is done for the wrong reason.

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Hydrogen is overwhelmingly made from fossil fuels with exergy destruction. NNadir Jun 19 #1