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Most groups who are brought in for the hardest work who are barely recognized as human and will be killed if they stink at the task they're given are usually very good workers.

It's not a snark if the other side of the "conversation" is the "why" behind the abuse.  

https://theconversation.com/hydrogen-cars-wont-overtake-electric-vehicles-because-theyre-hampered-by-the-laws-of-science-139899

All the same, I think hydrogen fuel cells are a flawed concept. I do think hydrogen will play a significant role in achieving net zero carbon emissions by replacing natural gas in industrial and domestic heating. But I struggle to see how hydrogen can compete with electric vehicles, and this view has been reinforced by two recent pronouncements

A report by BloombergNEF concluded:

The bulk of the car, bus and light-truck market looks set to adopt [battery electric technology], which are a cheaper solution than fuel cells.

Volkswagen, meanwhile, made a statement comparing the energy efficiency of the technologies. “The conclusion is clear” said the company. “In the case of the passenger car, everything speaks in favour of the battery and practically nothing speaks in favour of hydrogen.”

Hydrogen will displace natural gas eventually, but the only transportation uses for it are likely shipping and maybe freight transportation. In general, electrification is the more likely solution to displacing oil & gas than using hydrogen, biofuels, or anything else like that. That said, waste-to-hydrogen is getting a lot of attention recently.

Differently battery technologies will become economic eventually. Zinc8 is the latest company getting attention, but it's anyone's guess which ones win out. In the short term, commercializing other energy storage technologies on the grid-scale is more likely and I'd argue more important, whether that's EnergyVault, FormEnergy or something else.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/19/854760999/traffic-is-way-down-due-to-lockdowns-but-air-pollution-not-so-much

Discussion of why the economic shut down did less for air pollution reduction than you might have expected.

Unmentioned is the role of trees in all of this.

In weather news, it's pretty much summer here, late afternoon showers are becoming common (and welcome), highs in the mid to upper 80s, it can be sunny and an hour later be pouring rain.  The area around us has many historical markers, mostly about some brigade moving from here to there in 1864.  I try and visualize what any of that was like back then, the weather would have been hot of course as Sherman marched south.  It's an interesting campaign as Johnston tried to block Sherman and isolate on one of his corps, but never could pull it off, which suggests to me that it is very difficult to manage an army of 50,000 or so men to get them to do what you want when you want it.  Sherman was able to lever Johnston from a prepared line time and time again until Kennesaw Mountain, and after that battle Sherman flanked Johnston again and forced him to fall back, always falling back, which made Jeff Davis angrier.

I don't know what would have happened of course had Johnston been left in charge, probably more falling back, as he really lacked the resources to fight Sherman's army, and could have ended up encircled in Atlanta.  Maybe CWS knows.  I know it must have been hot.

Sherman IMHO was one helluva general.

Sherman IMHO was one helluva general.

Yes he was as - Shelby Foote noted maybe the 1st real modern General.He said something along the lines of "war is cruelty,the crueler it is the sooner it will be over." makes sense.My nephew lives down in the Atl with his wife/kids - says they've really done a lot with the place since Uncle Billy last came thru