Environment & Energy

...soothsaying.

I have direct experience of working with hydrogen and am well aware of its properties and use. As a scientist I am also aware of the inviolable laws of thermodynamics.

The analogy with bumblebees is absurd and specious. The laws of aerodynamics were not well developed in the 19th century. By contrast, in the 21st the laws of chemical thermodynamics are highly developed. They play a major role in the day to day lives of tens of millions of scientists.

The fact is that in 2024 all over the planet we have major forests bursting into flames, vast ecosystems collapsing because of - to put it appropriately bluntly - wishful thinking, disingenuous soothsaying, and denial.

Every damned instance of the application of hydrogen in 2024, including legitimate applications as opposed to Potemkin bourgeois toys like cars and boats, for example ammonia production, represents exergy destruction. This is a fact, and all the mindless soothsaying in the world will not change that fact.

If I must do any soothsaying, I predict that in 2064 the survivors, should there be some, will hold us, the current generation, in contempt based on what we did to them. I am 100% confident they will not be taking flights to vacations in Barbados on hydrogen fueled jets.