Sapientosaurs: Yes, No, its complicated?

The Jurassic park franchise brought forth the dinosaurs from the dusty sedimentary basins of Hell Creek in USA and Flaming Cliffs of Mongolia to the silver screen: while the depiction in 1992 was applauded for being up to date with the latest science, subsequent iterations stuck to the scaly-reptilian model, ignoring the latest findings of many of them having been plumed, sometimes elaborately. However, the franchise became more and more focussed on dinosaur intelligence, especially among theropods (two legged)-velociraptors opening doorknobs, and testing electric fences for weakness. The latest movie took the argument of gene manipulation to explain the “supra-sauroid” intelligence of its prime antagonist: Indominus Rex. Aside from the fact that Jurassic Park liberally substitutes the name for one dinosaur with the other (Archeornithomimus  was actually a cousin of the  Gallimimus, and in no way related to T-Rex genome, recombinant DNA or not), it got me thinking: what if dinosaurs had more time, say until the Holocene epoch? Would they have grown in intelligence, say, rivaling humans?

Two Self Defeating Arguments?

The Sunrush (1993-2017 when solar energy grew exponentially) coupled with the recent INDCs agreed at the COP21 in Paris (2015) have led to mainstreaming of Climate Change and the emissions problem like never before. The main emissions around the globe occur in the transport and the industrial sector, or more specifically the thermal sector using fossil fuels. The search for alternatives has led to initiatives like International Solar Alliance and the concept of Green Economy and LEED of USGBC (US Green Building Council), among others. Here I will attempt to present (and critique) my view about why Hydrogen might be an answer (and why it is important to pursue it seriously), in association with solar, wind and tidal energy. Then I shall veer off into what is perhaps a more ridiculous (and thus incorrect) source at the moment.