Curious about Hydrogen Advancements?...

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11. I'm just trying to get the point across that *IF* using dirty or partly dirty hydrogen actually reduces fossil fuel

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use compared to what we're doing now (burning refined oil low efficiency gasoline ICE engines), then that's an improvement we can do now, since one of our frequent posters points out, it's how almost (edit: more than) 95% of our hydrogen is produced. All's we need are the hydrogen-fueled fuel cell cars to utilize it, which also fits right in with Plan A above in post#9.

I don't think that's a false argument.

I'm just asking that end-use efficiency be considered too in the analysis, something that we both agree on.

My point originally was to argue against those who simplistically say that hydrogen is bad because it takes energy to produce the hydrogen (no, that's not what you were saying), without looking at the end-user efficiency as well (fuel-cell cars vs gasoline ICE cars).

If I'm deciding on buying a car, and the hydrogen car (even if the hydrogen is produced mostly/entirely from fossil fuels) results in overall less fossil fuel use than the gasoline ICE or hybrid alternative, than that's what I'm going to do. That's all I was trying to say.