Not necessarily.

Perhaps 20 years ago Biden WorldCom acquitted himself better.

That said Trumps performance is a well established debate strategy called a gish gallop - just say dozens of lies and your opponent won’t be able to rebut them all. If they try, they won’t have time for their own points.

pay more mind to content than affiliations

That’s not really possible when commenters with certain affiliations are known to be manipulative and participate in bad faith.

If it was just about transparency he would’ve released it sooner.

Sitting on it to release at the right time was partisan.

He released information relating to government officials engaging in misconduct

… at precisely the right time to maximise the effect of the release and diminish her chances at winning the election.

No whistleblowers shouldn’t go to prison, I’m glad Assange is going home but I do dislike him immensely.

I mean this in the nicest possible way but you seem absolutely insufferable.

This is precisely the type of un-depress yourself advice that helps no one.

You’ve laid out your personal depression cure to someone stating that reading about other people’s depression cures is incredibly frustrating when you’re actually depressed.

It’s great that you’ve found a plan that works for you, but don’t minimise everyone else’s suffering by proposing your own therapy.

In most cases the best thing you can do to help is to try to understand how someone is feeling.

IMO EVs are going great but adoption / implementation is struggling in some use cases, and hydrogen might be a nice alternative.

Embrittlement is a problem but it can be mitigated with careful selection of materials and ceramic coatings et cetera.

Who jumped into the hyperloop?

Self driving cars are going to be worth infinite money. Great investment.

Sure some companies were over-exuberant about LLMs, but not to the same scale of national infrastructure we’re talking about.

Failed investments are not evidence that all investments will fail, but large investments are an indicator of economic viability.

If only there was some way we could transport energy from these areas of the world with cheap land and plentiful sunlight to those areas where the energy was required.

I’ve provided a rebuttal for the other replies which you might find interesting.

In a scenario where you’re considering using roof-top solar to produce hydrogen for your car then yes, the inefficiency of cracking hydrogen from water makes it unappealing.

The thing is, I don’t think most of the world has access to roof-top solar and the portion that does will diminish as population and population density increases.

If you consider for example this project in Western Australia covering 15,000km2 it makes a lot more sense. The land (and associated sun light) is practically free. Hydrogen is a far more cost effective method of energy storage to get the energy from middle-of-nowhere-west-aus to market.

I guess one way to look at it is that hydrogen is a better option if the cost of the solar energy is less than a third of what it would be if you produced it nearby.

I don’t have a good understanding of the storage and handling aspect, other than to say I think most of the leakage is from embrittlement, for which the primary defense is ceramic coatings, or periodically baking the pressure vessel. That is to say it seems like a manageable problem. Design limitations are also manageable IMO. Ok it’s unfortunate it can’t be made into any shape like batteries but it’s also not significantly worse than a fuel tank.

For distribution, of course there’s no network if no one is driving hydrogen cars. It’s not that much of a leap to imagine that gas stations will start selling hydrogen surely.

Regenerative braking is possible for HEVs. The Toyota Mirai has it.

I don’t really follow you with industry synergy. Like people are using batteries so batteries are best? What if we hit peak Lithium (or China puts the squeeze on)? In that case it would be better to have an alternative up your sleeve.

the transition picture with hydrogen is a lot lot worse than EVs.

That may be your opinion but I’m not convinced. Japan and Australia are going all in on Hydrogen. I don’t know much about this, but it seems like there’s plenty of smart people who believe it’s viable enough to invest entire countries economic futures on.

Almost all hydrogen is made from fossil fuels,

Presently yes. It’s a by-product of natural gas production. There hasn’t been much of a market for it. In Australia there’s $230b of green hydrogen production projects on the table. Just one of which in Western Australia is going to produce 3.5m tonnes of green hydrogen per year.

Electricity to hydrogen to electricity is really wasteful,

Yes but electricity transport is very wasteful. There’s plenty of sun in Western Australia, falling in desert areas where land for solar arrays is practically free.

It’s really difficult to store and transport,

There’s problems yes, but the industry believes these are solvable problems. Toyota is the largest vehicle manufacturer in the world. Japan has several other very large vehicle manufacturers. They’re all betting on hydrogen. They’ve invested $2.3b in a hydrogen supply chain which is already shipping hydrogen.

I think Toyota only promoted hydrogen because they knew it would give internal combustion more time.

Hydrogen doesn’t provide power through “internal combustion”. A hydrogen fuel cell produces energy by running hydrogen over a catalyst which produces water and electrical energy.

Every tech has problems.

“Oh we couldn’t possibly make an electric vehicle because there’s nowhere to recharge it”

There are problems storing hydrogen but we’ve been working on mitigating those problems.

Australia has $230b worth of hydrogen projects on the board. Do you think no one involved in any of those projects has realised that it’s not possible to store hydrogen?

I don’t really understand the hatred for hydrogen honestly.

It seems like a great tech. There are huge hydrogen facilities being built in Western Australia to crack hydrogen from sea water.

I never actually log into YouTube so don’t get a tailored feed.

Popular videos all adopt one of several formats for their cover.

Search “house music”. It’s always hot girls.

I don’t understand. It is sarcasm unless @naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca believes muslim deaths don’t count.

IDK anything about tanks but I’m pretty sure rule 1 is that they need troop support, because without it they’re easy targets.

You just wouldn’t drive your tank through a space like this without troop support.

Or you know maybe, other people aren’t as brazen about it and it’s much more difficult to prosecute.

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