The Biogeochemical Fate of the Long Lived Radioactive Fission Product Selenium-79.

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11. There are of course, people who find statements of fact to be rude.

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It's unsurprising really.

If I were trying to convince someone that I pay no attention to what they say, it would be disingenuous and probably contradictory to repeat what the person says even in mangled form. It demonstrates poor rhetorical skills to do so.

Irrespective of any of that, it is a fact that hydrogen is overwhelmingly made from the steam reformation of dangerous fossil fuels with exergy destruction. Thus hyping hydrogen is pushing for furthering the destruction of the planetary atmosphere. In response to any effort to deny this fact, that pushing hydrogen is pushing fossil fuels, I can and do often, by appeal to the primary scientific literature demonstrate that this is well known and widely understood. It's never been a secret.

If there are people who find statements of facts, particularly when they are pushing toxic nonsense, to be insulting - and let's be clear efforts to rebrand fossil fuels as hydrogen is nothing if not toxic - this is hardly my problem.

In my ethics, it is dishonorable to coddle lies whether they are subtle or direct, particularly on issues of vast impact on a planetary scale.

I'm not interested in singing Kumbaya with people pushing destructive point and I'm less than interested in their personal opinion of me, whether rudely stated or rendered subliminally.

I'm a scientist, not a marketer of rebranded fossil fuels, and my more than 20 years of participation in this forum has always centered on issues connected with the degradation of the planetary atmosphere.

It is well known and widely reported that the production of hydrogen, chiefly for the manufacture of ammonia, is responsible for carbon dioxide emissions on a massive scale, around 2 to 3% of a level now having reached 37 billion tons per year in spite of endless solar and wind horseshit. All the slick high production marketing videos in the world have not and will not change that fact.

I will not be dissuaded from my advocacy of nuclear energy as the best tool for saving what is left to be save by petulant whining or by appeal to obvious logical fallacies.

Do I make myself clear?

No?

I couldn't care less.

Have a wonderful day.