I mean, we do. I just had a free surgery after a bunch of free doctor’s visits.

And I was dosed for free for that and other things as a kid. Some people have just been refusing it.

Oh come on. We’d eat Mississippi’s lunch any day.

It’s actually the second least religious, after British Colombia.

Yeah, reminder that Ukraine is fighting the good fight, but it’s still Eastern Europe and has Eastern Europe social attitudes and problems.

There’s three factors at play: depletion of the easiest reservoirs, sociological changes and increasing feasibility of competing technologies. The answer is going to depend on which things you’re assuming away.

Like, in this parallel modern world, is everyone using EVs, or horse and buggy? Early cars sucked - you basically had to be a mechanic just to own one, on top of the low speed, range and features - but they beat the shit out of no cars. It’s also worth noting petroleum products were burned in lamps first, so there was already a limited infrastructure for cars to use. If all the easy oil still isn’t there I doubt we’d bother, but with those gushing deposits of sweet crude just below Texas that used to exist the process would be much simpler.

The sociological one might be the easiest to answer. There’s plenty of heavy industry that’s nasty to be around, oil isn’t unique or even the worst offender, so that’s fine. If it’s the horse and buggy world people aren’t going to tolerate tons of steel whizzing them by with no enclosure, though. Most of that kind of thing was outlawed in the mid 20th century, but cars were just so ubiquitous. So, by that count, gas powered trains would be the application.

There’s a chance the greenhouse effect would be predicted and managed actively from the start, because science has come a long way. I’d guess urban air pollution regulation would end up in about the same place.

Can you link one? A quick look gave this:

A recent study by the USGS estimates that there could be millions of Mt of natural hydrogen in accumulations in the Earth’s crust (Ellis and Gelman, 2024). However, there is a great deal of uncertainty associated with this prediction and the model does not evaluate the potential size or distribution of hydrogen accumulations. Most of this hydrogen is likely to be in accumulations that are too deep, too far offshore, or too small to ever be economically recovered. That said, even a small fraction of the estimated amount of subsurface hydrogen could potentially meet all global projected demand for hundreds of years. Consequently, the key to understanding geologic hydrogen resource potential is to examine the geologic factors that affect the potential to form accumulations.

Oh, I see now.

Yes! Although it’s a relatively recent discovery. I believe there’s a pilot well operating already.

That’s what’s referred to as “white” hydrogen.

Ah yes, Indonesia, a country America famously knows about.

Well, the non-flashy policy rarely makes any friends. Everyone in the region hates them, except North Korea, which is run by people who might actually spend more time in China. And when it comes to Taiwan I’d say it is flashy.

I mean, there’s also white hydrogen and blue hydrogen, and other paths to green hydrogen than electrolysis.

We still will have to figure out the hydrogen economy, if only for steelmaking and similar.

Edit: Electrolysis varies in efficiency, too. The basic science fair kind is a lot worse than it is with careful catalysis, and research into those catalysts is ongoing.

We are talking about fuel cells, not ICE, though, right?

Is this how ghost gun printing is working? One person with a machine making and selling oodles?

If you’ve printed your own it seems like this would have limited applications, because you’ve either destroyed or lost it, or it’s still in your possession.

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Man, if it was that easy then China and the West would be having a much better time, and Israel a much worse time (since the Gulf countries are also rich).

He knows that he can’t really sustain tariffs because prices would really rise, and a massive recession would kick in, so he bluffs by delaying the dates.

Does he? Or does he just think the markets panic for no reason every time he tries?

People close to him have said tariffs being good for the economy is like a pathological fixed belief he has.

From the article:

The plane’s fuel was tested and found to be of satisfactory quality,

For the Republicans, it’s either this guy or a recently promoted conspiracy influencer with random frat bros as staff. The Democrats will still manage to lose.

(This is my impression as a Canadian)

We’d love to. You know we get it first and in higher concentration, right? Not to mention all our shit that burns down in the process.

And I mean, it’s from the climate change that you helped make as well…

“Whoops, we pinky swear we’ll investigate ourselves for that. Anyway, since they’re all gone now, we can go back to normal relations with the rest of the world, right?”