Resist H2 economic Meme

This upload is a first effort to produce something that both helped me get reoriented to the snookering that comes with the 'clean'NOT! hydrogen snookering in the US' 2022 IRA law (six pages – and another first draft regarding annotating that part of the law, and this from testimony I presented during the first session of Maine's 131st Legislature. https://legislature.maine.gov/committee/getTestimonyDoc.asp?id=10021337

2/3/24 update, and regarding the State of Maine's grid planing exercise as a device-in-law that buys time for delay in an upgrading of the either the transmission and/or regional grids infrastructure for about a decade. The public comment for that exercise closed 1/31/24. This is substance of a comment filed at 9:02 PM, which ChatGPT has concisely summarized at the end of this link (it is entered as comment 104 and on 2/1/24 at the MPUC case docket 2022-00322). The decade delay is game theory strategic. It provides statutory cover for delay until the snookering of the 2022 IRA's 'clean'NOT! hydrogen meme for fossil carbon oil and natural gas companies pre-qualifying for 100% of the two tax credits in that law is exercised at a time of those industries' choosing.

This was noted in the above first link to the Maine Legislature's server. On December of 2023 – and this is the Friday before the Christmas weekend –the Department of the Treasury of our Federal Government issued a press release initiating a 60 day public comment/#PurposedSpeech period on the proposed GREET rules that relate to the annotated text in the above linked testimony. There are now three distinct ways that "lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions are determined for "clean"NOT!hydrogen. 45VH2-GREET 2023 relates to electrolysis of hydrogen. the gas GREET relates to natural gas (that link is a placeholder because how the web resources are published at the Argonne National Laboratory seem to have changed since my previous research... stay tuned). The 1964 Clean Air Act stuff pre-qualifies fossil carbon oil companies when they self-declare themselves as 'transitioning' to be tax paying 'energy' companies. (Please note that the Treasury's press release conflates the two separate tax credits as being a "range.") As enacted game theory strategy I do not see how any of this can be changed. This is law. To change the law would mean that what is done would always be grandfathered. To try to claw this back, this would be a taking in law. That would require compensation rgarding such a change, and that as a taking.

The horse is out of the barn.