I'm not generally a big fan of "CleanTechnia," a "renewables will save us" website, but I came across this:

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Trump’s DOE Swings At Clean Energy & Accidentally Hits A Bullseye

The excerpt I liked is this one, with which I absolutely agree:

...In the end, this is a masterclass in stumbling backward into good decisions. Yes, the administration is gutting clean energy for all the wrong reasons. Yes, it’s disproportionately targeting blue states. But if you squint past the political pettiness, most of these proposed cancellations align with what energy modelers, physicists, and anyone who’s ever heard of the second law of thermodynamics have been saying for years: hydrogen for energy is a boondoggle, and CCS only makes sense in very narrow, industrial use cases...

I added the bold. It's wonderful to hear evocation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics, which should immediately and unambiguously kick the hydrogen fantasy to the contents of comic books.

President Biden is a great man, but even great men make bad choices, and support for hydrogen "energy" was such a choice. Hydrogen is not, in fact, primary energy and thus it is a scheme that somehow manages to generate inappropriate enthusiasm that is, in the end, like so called "renewable energy" itself, ultimately, ill advised at best, highly destructive at worst.

Conversely, even bad people can, as the author notes, do good things. The fact that Hitler pushed for the development of the Volkswagen bug, which was for decades one of the most fuel efficient cars on the market, did not make the Volkswagen bug a bad thing.