Pennsylvania governor rolls out plan to fast-track and subsidize power plants, hydrogen projects

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1. Making hydrogen from electricity anywhere on this planet...

...is a recipe for accelerating extreme global heating.

It's a feature of the age of ignorance from which, regrettably, we on the left are not immune.

The issue is primary energy, not an idiot's she'll game shifting energy from one form to another with exergy, and thus, environmental, destruction.

The cleanest form of accessible energy to all other forms of energy to minimize exergy destruction (but not to eliminate as elimination is impossible) is heat, the hotter the better within the limits of materials science. High temperatures can be converted, often with process intensification via heat networks to mechanical, electrical, chemical, and mechanopotential energy almost at will.

There is one and only way to produce high temperatures in a carbon free fashion and it ain't solar towers.

Why is this so fucking hard? Surely simple statements of the laws of thermodynamics should be accessible. Is our education system really that bad? Is propaganda and wishful thinking really that powerful?