>destroy any chance of developing countries to build up their energy networks and escape poverty. You mean cross country networks? Long haul, high voltage netw

>destroy any chance of developing countries to build up their energy networks and escape poverty. You mean cross country networks? Long haul, high voltage networks? If power is ubiquitous because of local grids with solar-fed storage to buffer night time use that enables everyone but high power users, i.e. industrial users. So the implication is only power hungry industrial base will let Africa escape poverty? That seems like a very last century view.