@sidereal @infobeautiful >it is always daytime somewhere on earth and we have technology for long distance power transmission.
Even the longest achieved HVDC run so far is nowhere near the length required to span the Earth.

Taking a rough guess, the voltages required to have an acceptable rate off loss for such a run would require much better insulators than what we currently have.

>other methods of electrical generation are also very polluting
Nuclear is far less polluting (it actually cleans up radioactive substances that are polluting the environment via removal) and it can supply power 24/7 provided multiple reactors that stagger their maintenance.

But that can't be allowed, because once a know highly defective reactor was operated totally wrong and another time nobody took a glance at the tsunami record and noted that the seawall be high enough (there was a rector not far down the coast with a high enough seawall, as someone looked at the tsunami record that was totally fine).