...I really, really, really, really am being dishonest in believing that the majority of this bullshit is anything but "an accounting trick," i.e. that these people whose hydrogen station blew up after a week, thus eating all of the external costs to build it, have shut their electrolyzers during long periods of dunkelflaute, and rush out, when the wind comes up to try to get the electrolyzers to get past the thermodynamic and economic penalty of electrolyzer hysteresis for a few hours, I admit that I am as unable and unwilling to provide an answer these quibbles that any quibbler is likely to accept.
I'm certainly not going to waste time "auditing" anyone to find out if their Potemkin hydrogen plant for fueling 40 or 50 vehicles on a planet with hundreds of millions of vehicles is really run on so called "renewable energy," because long experience - which may go beyond knowing what the person in the next office over is doing - tells me it's a waste of time. I have, for myself at least, a fairly reliable sense of bullshit. Even were I interested in doing so, they may not have time to address me, given that they have to clean up their exploded facility.
The planet is burning, and all the quibbles, and all the half a century of pursuing the putative hydrogen economy, which I am unwilling to stop asserting will not come, consistent with the reality that it did not come and is not here, has not changed that fact: The planet is burning.
Thanks for your mildly interesting remarks, but they don't mean doodley squat to me and it's best, if not for anyone else, then for me, to drop discussion of them. I stand by my remarks, the hydrogen game, like the "renewable energy" game it pretends is its source, is useless, if one defines, as I do, being useful as doing something to address extreme global warming. I am unconvinced that it is anything but fossil fuel apologetics.
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