Post #2685505
2026-05-06 20:27 UTC
The reason we’ve seen so so many pushes across a vast amount of industries for hydrogen to become the next source of fuel is simple: it keeps the status quo.
You keep the refineries, the fuel tankers, trucks, warehouses, logistical processes, pipelines, trade routes, white collar jobs, blue collar jobs, engine designs (the list goes on almost indefinitely). Literally, the closest to what “solving climate change” would look like if we were to just keep the existing power structures.
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@moritz@social.heiber.im 2026-05-06 20:34
Burning “green hydrogen” would still be as inefficient as gas obviously, with our current combustion engines. But producing green hydrogen is also really expensive. So you’d need subsidies, where’s that money coming from? Green hydrogen also obviously cannot even be produced in quantities just the most important industries would need it in to replace natural gas, not even speaking about trucks, or cars, or planes. It’s a mirage. There is so much wrong with this idea, it’s ridiculous.