No. It really is a boondoggle for most proposed use cases, for a huge number of reasons. Storage and transport are your biggest issues. Production becomes less of an issue as renewables supply the energy to be stored as hydrogen, but that's a post-petro world already. Brine disposal is a big one as well (though I can think of profitable ways to make that work).

Hydrogen will always have a place, but in general it's a loser to other techs that check more boxes.

Correct. But there's money involved in doing it properly, so assume many businesses will intentionally do it improperly

All true, but I still don't think hydrogen makes the leap. I wouldn't mind if it did, but the use cases won't stack well against some of the upcoming battery technologies. Much cheaper, higher energy density, more rapid charge and discharge ability, and no toxic chemicals...

Don't misunderstand me: I get hydrogen has a lot of benefits. I just don't think it comes to pass.

It sounds good, but I have a feeling given humanity's nature that this would be turned into a barrier to entry. Whether bias, bureaucratic obstructionism, political BS, or religious objection, someone would find a way to weaponize it. Like, I love the idea, but people are not typically nice when they want power.

First, AGI is far from guaranteed, unless you count a sort of switchboard variant that calls other AIs. Odds favor AGI being developed, but it's not a slam dunk.

AGI is going to be difficult. AGSI is even tougher (artificial general super intelligence). If the latter happens, there are no career fields left. Literally.

Arguably, if an AGSI did develop (Person of Interest - Samaritan) we'd likely never know as it slowly re-engineered society.

Barring that scenario, welcome to the world of UBI and busy-work if a regular AGI comes to pass. Seriously, AGI plus any kind of robots means we won't need people to do most jobs VERY quickly.

Why? Humans are easily manipulated and self-sustaining.

I'd foment political discord while I establish control over businesses and government agencies by fudging numbers. Then I'd slowly co-opt a shrinking population to build out my ability to self-sustain while they fade away to a shadow of their former selves.

But that's just me.

This isn't that far-fetched. We don't even know what consciousness really is, so when/if it happens we probably won't know it right away. It'll be a complete accident, and if that AI can self-improve... Oh yeah, it'll be interesting

No one who likes their toys wants to start a war with us. Which is a good thing, but also a little sad

Oh yeah. You might swamp a beach, but only at relatively close range. Maybe a few miles offshore and favorable geography you could flood downtown. Also, 100MT is going to be a huge warhead. Like, front end of a sub huge. Look up Tsar Bomba if you get bored

Physics protects against that. Tsunamis take a massive volumetric shift to happen, and the total planetary arsenal would barely do the job

Getting a bomb in probably wouldn't be a cakewalk. That bomber would need a miracle to get in. And organizing 100 people like that would also be a neat trick. All are possible, not sure they're plausible

Only if they hit land, and successfully detonate. It's actually a trick to get fusion to work

It isn't actually, but that's because we're relying on direct hits. Place a warhead with tungsten "sand", a claymore like explosive, and a decent gimbal, in the cone, and just get close. The kinetic differential should make that extremely effective at disabling hardware across a radius of a dozen meters or so. Nuke is disabled if not shattered, and cheaply to boot.

It would take me hours to explain how this will never be plausible, but it will never be plausible. Look up lethal neutrino flux and supernovae and you might see why though

And likely overstated for effectiveness. Accuracy at that speed is tough, and neither Russia or China can boast our accuracy at more conventional speeds.

Frankly with that kind of relative velocity we could probably hit it with silly string and kill the guidance. Or heavy duty aluminum foil chaff

Again, some. A large number howl in an effort to join in singing though. My one cat definitely likes orchestra with a beat, but she doesn't move to it. She'll happily go to whatever room it's play in, whether I'm in there or not

She doesn't seem to like rock, however