I’m'a smack BP up side the head
BP ad: “What is global warming” - followed with several granola-eaters fretting that “it’s real, very real”, and then (complete with hand wringing) “the ice caps are melting, the glaciers are disappearing”, and another “we’re destroying the planet’s ability to heal itself”.
What fucking arrogance. Do you honestly think that we could destroy this planet if we WANTED to? We can’t. It’s entirely too large for us to have that kind of impact.
And what’s BP’s solution? Using hydrogen to generate electricity - which they claim will reduce carbon emissions by 90%. I’ll take Bad Ideas for 500, Alex.
Alex: “Nearly twice as much as you get back.”
Me: “What is the amount of energy required to produce hydrogen?”
Alex: “That’s correct.”
Let’s see - how do we get hydrogen? Two ways - electrolytic liberation, chemical liberation. Electrolytic - exactly what it says: electricity. Chemical - most methods produce by-products that are toxic.
And for every watt of energy you use to liberate hydrogen through electrolysis you can only get about 0.5 watts back out through either combustion or through a fuel cell. Where, precisely, do they think they are going to get all the electricity to generate this hydrogen? The only one that doesn’t produce carbon is nuclear, and wouldn’t it be more efficient to just put the nuke plant on the grid and be done with it?
Using enviroweenies to push the anthropogenic global-warming agenda to promote a bullshit technological agenda in an effort to increase your company’s market share is despicable. That people actually believe in and are actively promoting the use of tax money to research the “hydrogen economy” is far worse. That’s going to be an enormous gob of money thrown down the shit-hole for no benefit whatsoever.