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There was a "listening session" today in the city of Chester, Pennsylvania, about plans to build a hydrogen plant. Chester is an EJ community, already hosting a horrid incinerator. I missed the listening session, but replied to the announcement with a link to the Paul Martin interview and a brief summary. The others had only been concerned about keeping hydrogen out of Chester, but after seeing my link & summary, began questioning hydrogen entirely.

One person replied with a link to an article about & video of Mike Strizky, https://www.sustainabilitynow.global/2021/05/16/hydrogen-micro-gridsclean-power-for-the-future-now/ and https://youtu.be/ci8HjpWLLk0?si=S784EDoUyM6o2FeR respectively.

Mr. Strizky has produced an impressive number of prototypes of hydrogen systems, is working on a patent, and is selling some of his constructs. His hydrogen hype is very smooth. But he never addresses any of the negative claims from Mr. Martin about EROI, secondary greenhouse effects, and leakage. I doubt that Mr. Strizky fits in with the kinds of guests you invite onto your show, but it sure would be interesting to see him in conversation with Mr. Martin, and see how he responds to Mr. Martin's claims.

P.S. Together with another member, we have been growing your audience within Transition Town Greater Media. Thank you again and again for speaking truth to power.

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Nate, I watched your amazing talk to CHSD on YouTube today! I highly recommend it to everyone of your substack readers and hope they in turn recommend it to others. It seems to me to be the most comprehensive talk I’ve heard you give to date and the slides must be extremely helpful to the β€œuninitiated.β€πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»

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