>If your grid covers a large region Like a belt of solar panels around the equator? Works for Dyson Sphere Program but that's a game. As big as the US is, fo

>If your grid covers a large region Like a belt of solar panels around the equator? Works for Dyson Sphere Program but that's a game. As big as the US is, for CONUS the entire continent is in the dark for significant portions of the day. It doesn't get more intermittent than that! > and you have sufficient transmission, Well duh. And assuming zero transmission loss. Or enough resources to overcome transmission loss and still be economically viable. Quite a bit of hand waving there.