Explosion at hydrogen fuel plant damages 60 nearby homes in Catawba County
Hydrogen, made overwhelmingly from fossil fuels, is a trivial "fuel," but it is likely that this case, which is from 2020, it was made via electrolysis probably from thermodynamically degraded grid electricity. (The building was a former furniture manufacturing facility.)
The article is here:
Explosion at hydrogen fuel plant damages 60 nearby homes in Catawba County
Excerpt:
The Hickory Fire Department says the explosion happened around 8:30 a.m. at OneH2 Inc on 23rd Street NW.
Officials say all 44 OneH2 employees have been accounted for. It’s unclear how many, if any, employees were inside the facility at the time of the explosion.
It appears the explosion happened near the back, outside part of the building, according to officials. Damage was reported to the building and about 60 surrounding homes...
A news video is available with the article:
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...scam is still a trivial outgrowth of fossil fuel marketing, has nothing to do with anything other than the rebranding of fossil fuels as "green," and, as the 2024 IEA World Energy Outlook reports in uncertain terms, a scheme to waste energy, at least if one can tell if 5 will still be less than 7 "by 2050." The big "hydrogen miracle" that's been the object of endless horseshit for half a century has finally, after being (correctly, I think) ignored by the IEA for 3 decades suddenly shows up, of course, "by 2050."
IEA World Energy Outlook 2024
Table A.1a: World energy supply Page 296.
At the risk of seeing yet another repeat of a video from China displayed dishonestly with pictures of solar cells, or another repeat of the "appeal to authority" logical fallacy involving Secretary Granholm, the last row in the column, which shows zero hydrogen "energy" in 2024, and predicts, 1 Exajoules out of 676 "by 2030" and 1 Exajoule out of 682 (at a cost of 2 Exajoules of primary energy, a 29% loss) "by 2035," and 2 Exajoules out of 691 Exajoules (at a cost of 3 Exajoules, a 33% loss) "by 2040" and 5 exajoules out of 722 (at a cost of 7 Exajoules, a 29% loss) "by 2050."
Note that in 2050, if the IEA soothsaying holds up, it appears that the IEA is referring to captive hydrogen, and only 2040 will anybody seriously be utilizing hydrogen as a fuel on any scale that matters, this at enormous risk, since the scam is dangerous.
The most recent major hydrogen plant explosion was at, unsurprisingly, a dangerous fossil fuel plant.
As for the contempt expressed for the 60 people whose homes were damaged, remarking that they weren't killed reflects a kind of moral indifference to my way of thinking. The plant is a small piece of shit plant, designed to produce 700 kg of hydrogen a day, by consuming thermodynamically degraded electricity on the North Carolina grid, and not a plant representing anything like a vast industrial scale plant.
Longview, NC H2One plant
I'm not saying people can't make money running this scam, clearly they can and so, hence all the greenwashing ads we see for hydrogen "energy." This slick ads surely cost money to make.
In my clearly and oft stated and unshakable opinion, anyone who believes or pushes this horseshit about "green hydrogen" is either gullible, badly educated, or overtly dishonest.
Hydrogen is a dirty (and dangerous) fuel.
A Giant Climate Lie: When they're selling hydrogen, what they're really selling is fossil fuels.
Fuel cell bus in California destroyed after explosion during refuelling.
The fuel cell bus, which didn't last particularly long involved the squandering of roughly 1 million dollars, not even counting the clean up that will surely be necessary of the chemotoxic fluorocarbons, once the fluoropolymers in the fuel cells are accounted for.
Have a wonderful weekend.
