LOOK AT THE SHINY BAUBLE!

Politicians and activists today (perhaps always?) are, more often than not, only interested in perceptions not facts. An unfortunate reality driven of course, by a public willing to be led by the nose when the dream is more comforting than the reality:

"Power industry expert Ben Beattie questions the current mania amongst politicians, bureaucrats and green activists for hydrogen as the clean, renewable fuel of the future. Beattie makes a simple point to ponder: producing hydrogen for energy use needs coal and gas, both to extract it from them as raw materials, and to power the energy-intensive electrolysis processes require to extract it."