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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • The article itself provides the data to argue that it’s sensationalist.

    Hydrogen is therefore an indirect greenhouse gas with a global warming potential GWP of 5.8 over a 100-year time horizon. A future hydrogen economy would therefore have greenhouse consequences and would not be free from climate perturbations.

    If a global hydrogen economy replaced the current fossil fuel-based energy system and exhibited a leakage rate of 1% then it would produce a climate impact of 0.6% of the current fossil fuel based system. If the leakage rate were 10%, then the climate impact would be 6% of the current system

    P.S.

    Nobody in their right mind will spend energy to manufacture a gas and then let 10% of it leak out unused.

    Leak rates characteristic of fossil gas systems are related to the nature of fossil gas systems.