That's a brilliant excuse: Lie about the effects of emissions, lobby (and pay) Congress to not do anything about it (or change incentives to maybe use less gas rather than more) and then, when you are getting sued, just argue that the lying didn't affect policy, so it was perfectly fine.
This is definitely one of those topics where going public can have immediate negative consequences for someone even if it turns out to have been a false positive.
The corollary is, that opposition to birth control while ignoring all the other factors you mentioned plays a huge role here - to the detriment of those involved, I would argue.
This is explicitly aimed at producing energy in cold environments (high altitude, polar regions), so it's less of an issue (and not exactly the point). Anyway, they seem to aim at 12% STH efficiency and provide some examples (assuming 65% hydrogen fuel cell efficiency):
Then, powering a Raspberry Pi computing device (PRPi = 4W) for an autonomous measurement device year-round at the > Neumayer III station (70.68°S, 8.27°W, Tavg,y = −15.5 °C) would prospectively require a module area of 0.41 m2, whereas at Paranal observatory (Chile, 24.63°S, 70.40°W, Tavg,y = 0.4 °C) 0.18 m2 would suffice.
Honestly, reading comments like these and articles like the OP has convinced me that we, as humans, will not at all be prepared for the next pandemic. And the one after that.
These viruses and their potential recombinations are out there, we don't need some virologist to go out and maybe catch it. People will catch them, we'll just know even less about them when the next pandemic starts.
Axel Springer is the company that bought Politico (and produces rags like Bild in Germany).
Springer Nature is majority owned by Holtzbrinck, a competitor to Axel Springer.