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Deep thinking on the topic of sustainability
Thank you so much for your detailed reply! It's great to be connected with someone who sees the truth behind the facade, and is clearly one of the rare deep-thinking polymaths out there (Eccomodder seems to concentrate them :-) : combining biochemistry, advanced technology and politics... It took me 3 years to get my head around many of the things at this interface (writing time for book). Being a scientist, I unfortunately ended up writing a book for professionals. It set out as a "pop science" thing, but I was continually worried that I wouldn't satisfy the scientist readers with citations to primary literature and scientific detail... so... it became a kind of chimaera (textbook-popscience)... It's the kind of book to dip into now and then, but just reading the ToC tells the story, because I very carefully crafted the chapter titles and subheadings as meaningful phrases. The story of pure-hydrogen economies versus power-to-x economies based on hydrogen carriers is expanded massively on the website, resulting in something that really impressed me: the overall efficiency, factoring in energy and material losses, of the pure-hydrogen infrastructure is worse than that of the e-Fuel one. And, to boot, pure hydrogen requires an enormously expensive, energetically-taxing and short-lived infrastructure compared with e-Fuel. Professional politics combined with the "green lobby" is doing untold damage to quality thinking and, ultimately, hopes for real sustainability, I conclude. I'm flattered that you think the book/website deserve a thread here. Would that be OK in your opinion? I don't want to do blatant self-advertising.
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