Gas-fired power plants are planned for load balancing, and these are already being built in such a way that they can be converted to hydrogen operation at a later date.

Gas... How "great" for the environment.

Perfect is the enemy of good enough. We still need to decarbonize construction, agriculture, aviation, maritime shipping etc.

Let’s not stare us blind at perfect in one sector wasting money and opportunity cost which needs to be spent on harder to abate industries.

Seems weird to say that while arguing against nuclear.