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by hotpotamus 859 days ago
I don't know that hydrogen was a "scam" per se - I think of fuel cells as essentially an alternative battery technology. It wasn't clear 20-30 years ago that lithium batteries would progress as much as they did, and so fuel cells were perhaps a reasonable hedge.
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Again valid industrial used aside, it was always a Trojan horse fake green tech pushed by oil and gas.

Green hydrogen was simply going to be a "in ten years" moving goalpost while everyone used methane if they actually got hydrogen off the ground.