Conceptually, hydrogen is no different from an electric cable — not a source of power, merely a way of transporting power from where it is generated to where it is used. Even if all the many other problems with hydrogen could be magically solved, there would still be the Big Issue of how to generate the energy to split water into oxygen & hydrogen in the first place.

We are seeing what President Eisenhower warned about in his Farewell Speech — the domination of “science” by the Federal research dollar. The easy (albeit dishonest) way forward for the “scientist” who wants to get research funds, publications, and academic tenure is to abase herself before whatever today’s Political Correctness demands.

There are other problems. Hydrogen does not condense at practical temperatures and pressures, and so it is difficult to store. There is also the issue of hydrogen embrittlement of steel, which affects not only storage tanks but also pipelines. As a practical matter this means that hydrogen must be made where and when it is going to be used.

The percentage of academic scientists engaged in misrepresenting (sometimes lying about) research is surprising large (a third?). In part this is because there is no ethical code for scientists, and they are free from supervision and monitoring.