Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
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Cleantechnica exists for the sole purpose of selling Tesla products. Links to it have no place in this or any credible community.
I believe Michael Barnard is a con man who some how gets paid to hate on hydrogen. Most of his "analysis" is just linking to previous articles he's written
I dunno about that. A quick browse of the site found several very negative recent Tesla stories
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/12/14/teslas-8-year-model-sales-trends-in-11-european-countries/
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/12/12/us-tesla-sales-drop-23-in-november-year-over-year/
"Hydrogen economy" believers.
Factual accuracy.
Pick one.
Don't have to be a true believer to recognize bias. Hydrogen-power is so far from a product you or I can buy that its laughable to fret over industry simps, and yet ...
... this article didn't mesh with what I thought I saw over the last year, so I looked into why. Factual accuracy wasn't on its side. Being unable to avoid reporting on certain negative facts doesn't entitle them to make others up in denial of all evidence to the contrary.
"Everywhere" was too much a non-credible stretch for even hyperbole; THAT is a fact.
First, produce hydrogen with solar and wind, then store and transport it with rail and ships, and then it can be distributed to smaller vehicles. The biggest issue are oil and gas industry and politicians doing anything they can to stop the hydrogen progress.
In the "smaller vehicles" part, great obstacles need to be overcome.
I would be content with doing only the parts that are reasonably economical and efficient:
Economically, this would likely make ends meet - and keep hydrogen away from consumers (consumers are careless and their systems often faulty, while hydrogen is demanding and dangerous).
I agree, that's a reasonable plan.
Yes, using hydrogen cells as one part of the storage for over production of electricity from renewables would be the way to go, if you go hydrogen.
Hydrogen in gas form regularly escape atmosphere and there's no long term study about what will happen if we mass produce it Hydrogen gas cannot be safely stored, the container will get metal fatigue unless reforged regularly Hydrogen gas is so small that it can pass through almost everything
Did your periods (.) also escape along with the hydrogen?
Yeah. Adoption means nothing as one is making hydrogen with the mindset they make petroleum based fuel.
Production needs to come before adoption. And by that, I mean, the end goal production process.
Any adoption before that is just wasting more energy.
But that's the same for batteries, from what I see.
Companies loved the idea of hydrogen because it was still a 'fuel' they could sell to the consumer as opposed to solar which wouldnt require filling stations.
We should have neen looking at aolar all along
Oil companies in particular loved hydrogen because it was so easy to watch it fail while continuing to sell fossil fuel burning infrastructure as "hydrogen ready"
This "article" is bullshit. A simple search will show that the EU is and has been using fuel cells in their trucks for some time now. Not only does it work, but real world tests show it breaking exceptions.
Uh huh, as expected and predicted
Well its hard to beat fossil fuel in terms of energy density.
And if there were no externalities, that'd be just fine. But we're far from that wonderful state.
Hydrogen can never be used as a practical fuel source as it destroys anything it's put inside.
There are in fact hydrogen cars like the Mirai. Its a cost-effectiveness problem, not a you-can't do that problem.
Sorry friend, hydrogen cannot be stored or transported in any kind of practical or reliable fashion.
Some ege case where a hydrogen-powered vehicle was produced doesn't take away from my point. It is not, and it cannot ever be a practical fuel source, because it effectively cannot be stored.
Rhetoric contrast in the title. We’re off to a promising start with this one.