Grid connectivity is not magic. It will cost trillions to pull off and it still doesn't solve the problem of intermittency beyond daily fluctuations. Overprovis

Grid connectivity is not magic. It will cost trillions to pull off and it still doesn't solve the problem of intermittency beyond daily fluctuations. Overprovisioning is just wasting energy. It also guarantees a free source of energy for whatever can utilizing it, which will also certainly be hydrogen production since it is effectively unlimited in its ability to scale up. The political problem is also not something you can dismiss. It will kill off most of the plans for global connectivity. And in fact this is a good thing as dependency on another country for energy is a bad idea (see Europe's dependency on Russia energy). So in the end, you really can't get away from hydrogen. It is simply too good of an idea and the alternatives are either impossible or totally unacceptable.