John thanks for posting, good stuff.
But there is a technology missed, which makes all the difference; reversible hydrogen fuel cells.
Those act like batteries until they are overcharged, then they start to generate hydrogen.
They can generate hydrogen indefinitely, so any scaling up of a solar farm driving them, (that they also might be backing up at night) , results in accumulation of hydrogen fuel, which functionally replaces fossil fuels, with none of the pollution, either in its production, or use. It can be transported in the same way as fossil fuels too.
So it would make sense to create a new solar collection industrial band around the equator, which supplies the rest of the world with hydrogen fuel.
That wouldn’t be much different from the way things look already, the sun rich areas also tend to be where most of the fossil fuels come from.
Another thing that makes a big positive difference is blockchain / proof-of-work tokens, with that we get money with an enetgy standard instead of money with a capital syandard.
That switches the economy from one that rewards for scarcity enforcement (Taking / Possessing), to one that rewards for enabling abundance (Giving).
With that we will have a very different world, one that actually works, it seems to me.
I call it our movement from capitalism, to energyism, and it seems pretty inevitable when we realise the full extent of the economics of 100 percent solar power.
Ive written more about that in my Money-fuel Tree and Bitcoin Kardashev Hinge Stories.
Though this is a very interesting and exciting result, there are some very powerful forces working to silence / discredit the information, so be prepared, if you do dig deep, we quickly find ourselves in an echo chamber.
I’ve been in it almost my entire time in Medium (2017), with many attempts to destroy my thirty years leading experience as an Expert Specialist Systems Engineer.
But it is the inevitable future, nothing can change that, it seems to me.