The losses can be made to be completely irrelevant though. There are many places on Earth with abundant energy -- think hydro plants in the middle of Wyoming, g

The losses can be made to be completely irrelevant though. There are many places on Earth with abundant energy -- think hydro plants in the middle of Wyoming, geothermal plants in Iceland -- that simply are too far away from population centers to be directly viable. Those places are where hydrogen will be produced, since you can pipe hydrogen basically infinitely, or compress and ship on-site.