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How is the hydrogen made? (slrpnk.net)

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/8569504

How is the hydrogen made?

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[–] [email protected] 257 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (56 children)

To save you all a google: it's made from natural gas, at a pretty significant energy loss compared to just burning the gas. It generates about 4 times more co2 than burning diesel.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Any evidence to your claim?

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/natural-gas/natural-gas-and-the-environment.php

Natural gas is a relatively clean burning fossil fuel

Burning natural gas for energy results in fewer emissions of nearly all types of air pollutants and carbon dioxide (CO2) than burning coal or petroleum products to produce an equal amount of energy. About 117 pounds of CO2 are produced per million British thermal units (MMBtu) equivalent of natural gas compared with more than 200 pounds of CO2 per MMBtu of coal and more than 160 pounds per MMBtu of distillate fuel oil. The clean burning properties of natural gas have contributed to increased natural gas use for electricity generation and as a transportation fuel for fleet vehicles in the United States.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the states for actually burned natural gas. Natural gas is basically methane and is therefore not too good for the climate when it leaks (which it does)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unlike oil.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oil leak is detectable via sight, methane is only detectable via a device, either a sensor or a camera.

Both is shit for the climate when leak.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oil extraction leaks methane in a comparable amount to natural gas. Every local survey points that coal extraction leaks more methane than natural gas, but those numbers are safely suppressed from consolidation into actual studies.

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