It is an answer for the complaint "but solar doesn't work at night" and "transmitting energy over long distances is inefficient" You see you could cover enough

It is an answer for the complaint "but solar doesn't work at night" and "transmitting energy over long distances is inefficient" You see you could cover enough desert in Nevada with enough solar panels to provide 100% of the current electricity use of the United States. But you couldn't transmit it over the current grid to the rest of the country and it would "turn off" every night. So stupid right? Except maybe you are using that energy to create natural gas and you're shipping natural gas around through pipelines to standard gas electric power plants. The math works, and the BLM has enough land (caveat the endangered tortoises) and so it is a "technically possible" solution to carbon neutral energy (you're taking CO2 out of the air and then returning it when you burn the natural gas). This also works with fission power plants as the source of energy, and really shines with fusion power plants (fewer externalized issues like waste management).