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No, I’m not. Again, by not mentioning that ammonia is made from hydrogen (and not mentioning that ammonia is by far the largest use of hydrogen today and also t
by Robotbeat 5y ago
No, I’m not. Again, by not mentioning that ammonia is made from hydrogen (and not mentioning that ammonia is by far the largest use of hydrogen today and also that almost all hydrogen is made with fossil fuels now but not historically), we are obfuscating multiple things. It seems implied that ammonia based fertilizers actually need hydrocarbons in particular (which isn’t true historically, technically, or in the future, BUT you’ll have many Degrowther types argue we have to use fossil fuels for fertilizer) AND it makes it easy to exaggerate the benefit of hydrogen cars (or the “hydrogen economy”) because it becomes unclear that hydrogen is actually by far made from fossil fuels. It’s not a simple consequence.
(Finally, green hydrogen is currently competitive with grey and blue hydrogen in Europe due to high gas prices at the moment, but that’s totally beside the point.)
https://think.ing.com/articles/hold-1of4-high-gas-prices-triples-the-cost-of-hydrogen-production/ https://think.ing.com/articles/hold-1of4-high-gas-prices-tri...
- politician 5y agoThanks for your comments. Until today, I was under the mistaken impression that fertilizers required hydrocarbons.