Environment & Energy

A total all-fronts war on H2 is kind of misguided. Building a thread around a 5 year old story and titling it in the present tense is disingenuous.

We get that you feel H2 in 2024 is terrible and not green or white. We agree; H2 in 2024 is terrible and more: it is not going to somehow be the main saviour of humankind in 2064 like some people seem to think.

In 1984, electric vehicles were terrible, inefficient, extremely limited. If someone mounted an all fronts war against EVs in 1984 on the basis of the state of technology at the time they would have got some traction but most thinking people would have said "yeah, but let's see what develops".

It is worse than useless to take an absolutist total denial position on H2 in 2024; the usefulness of H2 in 2064 will be wider and broader and deeper than we could possibly know in 2024. Will it be a miracle solution? No. Will tech change the awful properties of H2? No. Will tech find ways to handle it that will make it useful in limited applications despite the problems and inefficiencies? Yes. Will it have a place in the toolkit of humanity? Yes.

It's a bit akin to professors analyzing bumble bees in 1887 and declaring men will never fly. 40 years later a solo human flew across the Atlantic.