101–Robert and Eric review a recent news article looking at a diesel ferry that has been converted to hydrogen. They present the findings of a review on this disastrous hydrogen project near Oslo where several millions of taxpayer money are used to increase GHG emissions using a hydrogen ferry compared to the original diesel ferry.

Eric goes through the arti­cle and high­lights the cal­cu­la­tions done by the reporter which shows a decrease of ener­gy effi­cien­cy com­pared to elec­tri­cal pow­er tian of 10 times. Yes ten times. This arti­cle is unusu­al as the per­son who wrote it knows how to cal­cu­late num­bers. Eric goes through his cal­cu­la­tions show­ing how a diesel fer­ry that did a 12-mile route near Oslo was replaced at huge cost by a hydro­gen fer­ry using an EU grant. Like hydro­gen cars, busses, trains and the like, the same out­come pre­vails with fer­ries: hydro­gen used for trans­porta­tion is always a fail­ure. For this project, emis­sions went up, reli­a­bil­i­ty went down, and costs went through the roof. The author amus­es him­self by show­ing how peo­ple start to influ­ence politi­cians, tax­pay­er funds are spent, the hydro­gen project costs spi­ral and at the end an elec­tri­cal dri­ve train is employed. This project shows us how deeply com­mit­ted peo­ple are to doing every­thing they can to avoid the tran­si­tion to a 100% renew­able ener­gy world using an intel­li­gent approach. Eirc blames Robert for cli­mate change being vic­tims of sales­peo­ple that sale projects that we know in advance work against cli­mate change.