> The "whole country" is irrelevant. You can't transmit arbitrary amounts of power across the large geographic areas, most of energy has to be generated in a re

> The "whole country" is irrelevant. You can't transmit arbitrary amounts of power across the large geographic areas, most of energy has to be generated in a reasonably close proximity. Only technically correct because you said "arbitrary": it's well within China's manufacturing capabilities to make a grid that can transmit 3 TW over 40,000 km, with a conductor cross section so thick it only has 1 Ω resistance. As in: all the world's current electricity demand, the long way around the planet. I have, in fact, done the maths on this. > Transmission lines are expensive, regardless of your ideology. "Expensive" but not "prohibitively expensive". All infra is "expensive". Nations have a lot of money.