[bob29]

Easy, there’s many: 1) Solar + transmission lines. It’s always sunny somewhere

2) wind + transmission lines, always windy somewhere

3) use some energy produced by hydro to manufacture some concrete river beds and reservoirs

4) use some of the energy produced by 1-3 to dig real deep for geothermal everywhere

5) Ocean thermal energy conversion

Don’t get me wrong , I’m not anti nuclear , I’m a huge fan of the big reactor in the sky it produces all we need with perfect reliability there’s no reason to do something as dumb as trying to build terrestrial reactors

[sir_bearington]

> 1) Solar + transmission lines. It’s always sunny somewhere

> 2) wind + transmission lines, always windy somewhere

These don't produce power consistently. That's why one would need to build redundancy. Also it's not always sunny somewhere, unless you build transcontinental transmission lines. And even then, there's a period of time where most sunlight is hitting the pacific ocean.

> 4) use some of the energy produced by 1-3 to dig real deep for geothermal everywhere

> 5) Ocean thermal energy conversion

Both of these are geographically dependent. Might as well has just said hydroelectricity.

[rurounijones]

> Solar + transmission lines. It’s always sunny somewhere

Unless it is sunny 24/7 in a given country or even group of coutnries (e.g. the EU) this is not viable.

Countries will not give up their energy security and put themselves at the mercy of the other side of the planet (where it is sunny) plus whoeever might want to damage those transmission lines and cripple a country. It is already an issue with oil and gas.