Not comparable. The salt in this scenario came from the ocean in the first place and it's just going back where it came from. It's not like there's additional salt being added to the ocean or a significant amount of water being removed to make it more saline.

We're not taking locally here. They claim we will change the ocean but it's basically a closed loop.

Where do you think that water is going? It goes back into the water cycle and eventually the ocean. We cannot possibly remove enough water from the ocean to make a significant change. Where would we put it? The hydrogen made gets burned and turns back into water which returns to the water cycle as precipitation.

Also you're not adding salt, the salt came from the ocean in the first place.

Not really. The salt is going back into the ocean, where it came from. The gasses were releasing from the ground or somewhere else that is not the atmosphere.

Can we not just discharge the brine back into the ocean? I don't really have an idea of the scale we would be dealing with but my gut tells me it's difficult to remove enough water from an area to significantly change the salinity. There's just a mind boggling amount of water out there

Seriously, had anyone heard of the ash pits from coal? Way more concerned about that.

It's so much less of a risk than all the externalities of coal that it's not even in the same ballpark. It's not renewables versus nuclear but renewable AND nuclear. They pair well together.

It was safe to be pro-hydrogen because there was no risk it was going anywhere in the next decade. Definitely a distraction.

Because there is probably not a significant local demand for that waste heat near the plant.

Not sure if this hydrogen being added to natural gas is being used for producing electricity or sent with gas to homes or both, but if sent to homes for heating then it's more efficient for it to be burned in the home than to be used to generate electricity then incur generation and transmission losses.

What sort of food safety things do we have to worry about with eating insects? I'm all for it but I'm imagining a factory farm for crickets and what sort of germs and diseases live on and in them, or are they surprisingly clean?