Hyundai Accelerates Supply of Hydrogen City Buses Targeting 400 Units in Seoul

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9. I'm not trying to be "persuasive," to people who bring this nonsense around here.

There is an audience beyond the participants, and over the last half a century I feel compelled to clear the air about something called "reality."

When I was young and stupid I certainly bought into the nonsense that hydrogen would be "green" but now that I'm well educated, I feel free to address this unfortunate but disturbingly popular conception.

Hell, when I was in high school I took my rectifier from a toy and set up a copper wire to electrolyze salt water. (This of course caused the copper to oxidize.) It is an experiment every kid should do. However if one is a grown up, it's a different story.

The value of being educated is enhanced when one shares it. Whether or not one is cute and gracious about it has nothing to do with one is stating a truth or not. I have personally learned a great deal from people I personally didn't like.

In the other direction I have tended to dislike people who value their dogmatic perceptions in such a way as to advocate for destructive practices, particularly where sustainability and our obligations to future generations are at stake.

It is important to correct the record. On this planet, right now, hydrogen manufacture is responsible for about 2 to 3% of carbon emissions each year, about a billion tons. For this reason, since it represents a particularly dirty reagent, an essential one, but a dirty one all the same, and thus efforts to claim that it is a clean fuel harms the environment.

Got it?

No?

Why am I not surprised?

Have a nice day.