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Clean, renewable energy will soon be cheaper than traditional polluting sources,
. . . but, It tends to get generated in:
. . . . . . inconvenient places, at
. . . . . . inconvenient times,
. . . . . . that don't necessarily match up with where it's needed.

Part of this problem could be solved with grid-level battery storage,
. . . if it were cheap enough.
The other part, is when it's noon in the Gobi desert, and solar generation is at its peak,
. . . it's dinner time in the UK and everyone's boiling kettles.

Since 2009, China has built nearly
. . . 10,000 miles of UHV power lines, and plans to build
. . . 10,000 miles more,  in the next 2 years.

The larger GEIDCO's interconnected web of renewable energy becomes,
. .. the more stable the supply is,
. . . because it's less dependent on individual sources,
. . . so moving toward a global energy network that shares power from,
. . . Greenland to South Africa,
. . . Australia to Switzerland,
. . . is the ultimate goal.

11-14-2016 Source:  Asian “super grid”