[ok_dad]

- Move as much load out of the low-solar areas as possible. Don't put steel mills and other industrial stuff there. Do that industry in the desert where possible. Society will have to change, at least a little, to switch to renewable energy sources and off of carbon for good.

- Use 100 hour battery tech, which is almost (years not decades) at commercialization. This can bridge pretty big gaps.

- Dam and fill some big valleys in the low-solar areas with water and put generation and pumps on them, to store water all summer for winter use in generation.

- Wind works most of the year. Offshore is great for that.

- HVDC lines streching from sea to shining sea.

- The BIG one: You can save 30% or more on HVAC and other specific loads, if you let software control them better. The problem is retrofitting shitty old buildings with electronics to do it, and getting building managers to repair their HVAC systems instead of letting them languish.