> Honestly the nut we should be cracking is putting solar in our deserts and figuring out how to transmit the electricity. We have figured out the latter alrea

> Honestly the nut we should be cracking is putting solar in our deserts and figuring out how to transmit the electricity. We have figured out the latter already. High-voltage direct-current transmission has losses in the low single digit percent per 1000km. China is transferring several nuclear power plants worth of power over thousands of kilometers already today. Edit: Wikipedia says that the Chinese connection I remembered has a capacity of 12GW over 3300km. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current