Actually gasoline fumes aren’t all that explosive outside of Hollywood films, and hydrogen isn’t really that dangerous. Less dangerous than many other fuels in fact, since its extreme lightness means that burning hydrogen goes rapidly straight up instead of spreading. As spectacular as the Hindenburg disaster was, 62 out of the 97 onboard survived.
If anything the biggest problem with hydrogen is that it’s hard to contain and hard to condense, so it’s bulky. Hydrogen powered ships are probably the most practical just because bulkiness doesn’t matter that much with them.
As for oil, eventually we’ll stop using just because it’ll run out.
Cool. I have electricity. Show me how to use it directly to make ammonia. Or SAF. Or DRI. Or how to store it for a year cheaper than with batteries. Or how to sell it to Japan. Or how to use it for hydrocracking.
We currently make about 100 million tons of hydrogen a year without any new applications.
Yes it’s probably dumb to put in my car but PNWH2 wasn’t looking at that.
You have access here to people with phds who work in this area and who actually know something about this topic. You can ask question and are not forced to post whatever that was.
Every single time I hear this sentiment echoed by a Trump supporter I want to scream, “What the fuck did you think was going to happen?” I suspect the most common response will be as follows:
Michigan just announced SNAP benefits (food assistance for low-income residents) will be halting in November due to no federal funding. Apparently the state govt was told this by the feds, so yep. No groceries for you rural MAGAs (and there are a lot of them) who need help.
Krugman addressed the way trump is screwing over his rural worshippers today in his Substack (free to subscribe). He hints that they may be starting to see the light. (If only.)
Is rural America starting to fall out of love with Donald Trump?
Policy wonks like me have spent decades pointing out that if rural Americans voted based on their informed self-interest, they would be supporting Democrats, not Republicans. Republicans are constantly trying to eviscerate Democrat-supported programs that benefited rural states like Medicaid spending, SNAP (the supplementary nutrition program formerly known as food stamps), and school lunches. Trump is also cutting subsidies for green energy programs like solar farms and wind turbines – subsidies that disproportionately went to red states. Iowa gets 63 percent of its electricity from wind!
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Yet economic self-interest has been swamped by “rural consciousness.” This consciousness rests on a belief that highly educated urban elites don’t understand or value rural culture and rural lives.
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The attempt by Trump and Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, to rush $20 billion to Argentina isn’t a big deal compared with the planned savage cuts to crucial programs. But it’s a graphic demonstration of the administration’s hypocrisy.
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Furthermore, from farmers’ point of view, Argentina is a rival — a big soybean exporter at a time when Trump’s trade war has locked our own farmers out of China’s market.
And as emphasized in a recent conversation between Greg Sargent and a rural Democratic activist, farmers have been shocked and outraged by Trump’s casual suggestion that he might start buying Argentine beef to sell in the U.S. market.
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That’s probably all I can legitimately quote. But read the rest of it.
First he stops USAID. One food market gone. Then he cuts sales to China. Two markets gone. Now he’s importing beef? WTF, chuck? It makes NO DAMN SENSE!
Of course it makes sense. If he can’t take a cut of some business, he tries to destroy it. By replacing it with a different business he can take a cut of.
Somehow he’ll make a buck off every pound of Argentine beef imported to the USA. That buck to him is the only thing that matters to him.
I genuinely didn’t know that ginseng was grown in the United States. And their sole customer was China. Three guesses who they voted for in that county?
