Hijinx
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Well I looked it up.
Explainer: how do we make hydrogen from coal, and is it really a clean fuel?
AGL has announced plans to use coal to make hydrogen fuel at its Loy Yang A station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley. Wait, isn’t coal made of carbon, not hydrogen? Yes, but here’s how the process works.
theconversation.com
I read this , but it didn't help much. It appears that Hydrogen is a clan fuel, but getting the fuel from the coal is not so clean.
They have to use some heat and the by products are carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide. and a few other things
Looks to me like they are polluting to make the clean fuel.
If we are going to pollute to make the hydrogen why not just burn the coal like it is ?
This is not a zero sum industry, just fooling the foolish into thinking they are cleaning the atmosphere when in fact it really doesn't.
The only thing it does IMO is make the coal more expensive to use and gets the people who are fooling us rich.
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