Hydrogen economy assessment for long-term energy systems in Japan (In case you missed it.)

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2. A "hydrogen economy" is one of those stupid ideas whose popularity runs in cycles. The laws of physics are not...

...subject, however, to popularity.

The famous logical fallacy is this one: Appeal to Popularity.

Of course, it's a very popular fallacy here and throughout our culture, and a lot of what's happening in our collapsing world can be attributed to it, not merely with respect to energy, but in many other areas as well, including the scary rise of fascism around the world. This will not play out any better in the 2020's than it did in the 1930's.

Hydrogen, the worst of the bad ideas that claim storing energy is "green," is just a symptom. I've seen it wax and wane over four or five times in my life, and when I was young, uneducated, and naive, I actually believed that a "hydrogen economy" was a good idea, but since, I've learned a lot about bad thinking and of course, I received and sought education.

I do believe or at least strongly respect that the slick ads for hydrogen here are too slick to be the randomized work of an individual with a misplaced passion. Then again, I have myself, on issues of nuclear science, been accused to being a shill, probably hundreds, if not thousands, of times, particularly at the antinuke dominated website DailyKos, so I reserve definitive judgement.

I recused myself while serving on the MIRT team when the person I regard as a fossil fuel greenwasher showed up, and anyway, don't actually regret doing so. It's fun to air out this stupidity, since the dumb idea of a "hydrogen economy" never seems to die its deserved death.