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True. But if you have to keep burning coal to get hydrogen you haven’t gained anything.

34 posted on 04/14/2023 10:18:33 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))

But if you have to keep burning coal to get hydrogen you haven’t gained anything.

Power plants get you some efficiencies of scale. An oil burning ICE is 25-40% efficient. Electricity turned into motion is more efficient. So, even an oil burning electric plant may be okay from an efficiency standpoint, and it was mostly the principle on which the petrol burning Volt operated.

There may be some advantage to relocating the source of the emissions. It might be better to burn the coal in some remote area than in the San Fernando Valley, Mexico City or Peking for LOCAL pollution reasons.

None of this justifies the draconian reset being forced on everybody.