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Date: 10 Dec 2024 00:42:30 GMT
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On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 10:44:32 +0100, D wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:
> 
>> Then there is the problem that most hydrogen comes from processing
>> natural gas rather than green alternative energy sources.
>>
>>
> Very interesting! Had no idea! I find it funny that this is somehow
> never meantioned by the green crowd.


https://www.brightgreenlies.com/book

'Bright Green Lies' by Derrik Jensen.

Jensen is not a fossil fuels industry apologist by any means. He is one of 
the founders of Deep Green Resistance that is considered too radical by 
some environmentalists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance

The book gets somewhat redundant as he works his way through the various 
green technologies. For each he starts with the extractive industries that 
are required. Solar cells? There are two prevalent technologies for PV 
cells. One uses cadmium and tellurium and the other copper, gallium, and 
indium, plus silicon. What is the impact of producing these materials? How 
are they mined, transported, and processed? How much heavy equipment must 
be produced? How much energy is used during the smelting or other 
processing?  What other materials are needed for completed PV panels? 

After the PV panels are produced, what is required for site preparation? 
What are the ecological impacts of huge solar projects? What is required 
to produce and install the distribution network?

The same analysis is done for wind, hydro, and so forth. The 'renewable 
energy' technology is the tip of a huge iceberg of antecedent processes 
studiously ignored by the bright green environmentalists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_green_environmentalism

They parallel the cornucopians that believe there will always be a 
technological solution to allow our comfortable life style without taking 
any hard decisions.