I am a big proponent of solar and wind. Both need to be taken more seriously. Both are far better long term energy options than hydrogen no matter how you look at it. So no, this is not more BS from the fossil fuel industry, regardless your take.

[–] Hypx@kbin.social -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then you're missing the point: Wind and solar were heavily dismissed or ridiculed when they were getting started. People mocked them just like what you're doing now.

[–] RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

No point has been missed. I'm not mocking anybody. Look at the tech required. It's easy to see why this fuel source has not come to fruition, yet we have fields upon fields of wind and solar tech. None of which I ever riduculed, personally.

This isn't a personal attack. Again. Ridicule has nothing to do with discussing facts. On that note, have a great day.

[–] Nudding@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

If this is the same guy I ran into on here a few months ago, he's literally mentally ill about hydrogen.

[–] Hypx@kbin.social -4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Again, that is the same thing people said about wind and solar. The naysayers also claimed that they were impossible for similar reasons.

It doesn't matter that you personally didn't attack wind and solar. You are attacking green energy now, and doing the same thing as those that did attack wind and solar.

[–] RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hydrogen is not currently a green energy. Green means the energy is produced in a manner which causes no harm to the environment. About 4% of all current hydrogen is "green". Global supplies are manufactured with natrual gas (47%), coal (27%), oil (22%), and electrolysis (4%). According to the International Renewable Energy Agency, at least.. Huh.

I guess I'm not really attacking a green energy, am I? I mean, I wasn't before, but still. Discussing the difficulties of hydrogen at industrial scale isn't attacking it, no matter how bad it hurts your feelings. It's simply fact we cannot ignore.

I've never heard a single naysayer claim solar or wind were impossible. Like, ever. This is pure unsupported, anecdotal nonsense.

Unless you have factual support for your rebuttal that is relevant to the topic, you have lost my attention.

[–] Hypx@kbin.social -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Neither was electricity until after we started to build wind and solar. People accused electrification plans of just enabling more coal. This style of argument is intentionally ignoring current and near-future developments. You're implying that nothing is changing or can ever change.

Again, you are perfectly recreating the same anti-wind and anti-solar arguments of the past. This is the same story, just with different names and dates. You really are attacking green energy. It's just via the "both sides are equally bad" style of attack.

Yes, people outright claimed that large scale deployment of wind or solar were impossible forever. There were even books written entirely about explaining how it was impossible forever. Entire energy research groups made annual predictions of imminent collapse of wind and solar power deployments, because it was assumed that it was just impossible forever. It's pretty obvious you had no memory or are too young to know about all of that.