Bad News for "Green Hydrogen."

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4. Since I'm aware of the second law of thermodynamics, not an asshole seeking...

...to rip the seafloor up for so called "renewable energy," like say, um prominent antinuke Benjamin Sovacool...

Sustainable minerals and metals for a low-carbon future

Subtitle:

Policy coordination is needed for global supply chains.

...while pretending to give a shit about the acidification of the ocean, I'm trying to have something called "wit" about scientific fraud.

Of course, if one lacks wit, one might not be intelligent enough to grasp an attempt at wit, whether successful or eye rolling.

To be perfectly clear, I regard all the bullshit about "green hydrogen" to be a massive case of scientific, economic, intellectual, and moral fraud, and the appeal to this particular fraud - I monitor "Retraction Watch" regularly - "green hydrogen" is represented by something called "analogy."

I really, really, really couldn't care less however whether people of limited insight and highly selective attention - and let's be clear, I consider any asshole who carries on about nickels and dimes because of the expense of rebuilding the nuclear infrastructure they worked all their lives to vandalize, and say, Fukushima, to be people of limited insight and horribly low ethical status - get it.

As it happens, scientific fraud is on my mind, because I'm reading Charles Piller's Doctored, about fraud in Alzheimer's.

One time here, I commented on Piller's article in Science in connection with commentary here, referencing a publication by the so called "science editor" at Daily Kos, who wrote that Alzheimer's would have been cured if the fraud hadn't taken place. I pointed out this was nonsense, the same amount of money spent on the amyloid plaque hypothesis as a causative etiology as a result of the fraud was spent on another avenue may not have resulted in a cure: The disease has proved intractable through multiple approaches to addressing it, and "more money" in a different area may not result in success. (For full disclosure, I have worked, peripherally, with scientists working on Alzheimers, focusing on anomalies connected with the APOE4 gene expression.)

DailyKos is a website run and owned by an antinuke. Over there they used to carry on with a vast series of posts about how much they admired James Hansen, the famous climate scientist, until he said something that they didn't like, that nuclear energy saves lives. I reference the paper in question often here, repeating it whenever some antinuke asshole carries on here about his work:

Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power (Pushker A. Kharecha* and James E. Hansen Environ. Sci. Technol., 2013, 47 (9), pp 4889–4895)

Again, I confess that I repeat it often, not that repetition of anything, be they facts or references or data, can get through thick heads. (I have had antinukes whine about my repetition of data they don't like.)

I can't by the way, do this at DailyKos. The antinuke in charge banned me for making a true statement, which was that if Jim Hansen's paper just referenced was correct - and I assert it unambiguously is - then opposing nuclear energy is murder.

I'm sure this made the antinukes there very happy, that I was banned for stating - to steal a phrase - "an inconvenient truth." One way to remain comfortable with one's ignorance is to filter information so as to not see anything that conflicts with one's dogma.

Let me repeat one more time: The idea that so called "renewable energy" can address climate change is a more than 5 trillion dollar experiment that has given a negative result: The degradation of the planetary atmosphere is accelerating, not decelerating.

Now, I concede that perhaps my effort at "wit" fell flat, especially with people with no sense of humor and/or people completely lacking in wit. Maybe it represented a private joke that I might have kept to myself.

Nevertheless, the analogy stands: Antinukism, a cult if ever there was one in my view, is a fraud, and it is, again, by appeal to Hansen and many others, a fraud that kills people.

Got it?

No?

I couldn't care less.

Have a nice day.