Indi, articles like this are needed for sure, and few people are better placed than you to give us a firsthand view of what is in for us. But the worst can yet be avoided, if it could be understood. I know I've tried to communicate this to you in the past, but I guess I didn't succeed, or you've forgotten.

A key is in understanding the difference between burning hydrogen, and burning fossil fuels; it all comes down to where the fuel came from; whether we created it, or nature created it.

If nature created it, we shouldn't decreate it, as a general rule. But if we create the fuel ourselves from the energy of sunlight, then the only products from burning it are things we can put to use, like oxygen, and water.

We might notice that is the way nature works, it generates no pollution, all waste from all things is food for other things.

Looking at the energy shortage in Sri Lanka, and excesses of solar energy in Vietnam, some are starting to see how maybe to fix some of the issues.

The problem in Vietnam is that they don't know how to store or transmit the excess energy, or put it to use in the grid, which cannot handle the oversupply of solar energy, so they are literally switching off their solar farms, during the times when they can't do anything with the power.

They are also faced with a reality that to upgrade their grid to handle all of the solar capacity, maybe three more years are needed, when most of the solar farms (16.5GW), were built in about a year.

But now we know some more about hydrogen storage and distribution, we see that it can be cost effective to just use it to functionally replace fossil fuels, transporting it, distributing it, and burning it in the same way as we used to do with fossil fuels, as well as backing up the power in the solar installations 24/7, with only a small time needed to implementation (A few months).

If Sri Lanka was to invest heavily in solar backed by hydrogen right now, your country could be pretty well clean fuelled and have no shortages well within a year. Otherwise things will get unimaginably worse, unfortunately.

https://eric-bott.medium.com/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-grids-85192e6574bb