>No, they don't. There is a lot of empty land in the world that isn't useful for people to live in or to grow crops due to lack of rainfall, which also makes th

>No, they don't. There is a lot of empty land in the world that isn't useful for people to live in or to grow crops due to lack of rainfall, which also makes those sites more valuable for solar energy. Yes, I grew up near a lot of that land. Unfortunately that land is also far, far away from most of the population in the US and thus where energy is needed. You do realize transmission loss is a thing, right? And then what do you do when the sun isn't shining? We still consume power at night. If this was such a trivial problem we wouldn't still be talking about it, no?