You're betting against human ingenuity here. Solar still works in cloudy weather, and you can compensate by building more than you typically need. You can tran

You're betting against human ingenuity here. Solar still works in cloudy weather, and you can compensate by building more than you typically need. You can transmit increasingly long distances. Here's a line working at 2300+km. https://www.power-technology.com/features/featurethe-worlds-longest-power-transmission-lines-4167964/ https://www.power-technology.com/features/featurethe-worlds-... Most weather doesn't span 2300km in all directions so I think it's possible to handle most situations and fill in the gaps over time. You can use a Tesla as home battery. Charge at work or home, or at a supercharger, power your house at night. Sure there are edge cases like far north where you need coal or nuclear. But I'd bet the bulk of humankind can be supplied well given another 10/20 years of innovation.