The downside of solar is that you'd either need a lot of storage to get through the night, or you'd need geographically-distributed power generation and the abi

The downside of solar is that you'd either need a lot of storage to get through the night, or you'd need geographically-distributed power generation and the ability to move large amounts of power to the other side of the Earth. I'm kind of surprised we aren't already well on our way to building the latter, considering the potential benefits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_grid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_grid