What a bickering person you are. I sense that you have so much invested in wind that a change in that paradigm may promote a nervous episode and so is to be guarded against. As it happens I have nothing against wind, I'm in 2 minds on the topic. The high altitude wind generators I saw mentioned recently on here look interesting but as regards the economics and physics of solar the figures are there, the track record is there and the developmental trajectory of both over the next 2 decades is clear.

As for the distribution issue a couple of things strike me. This electricty can be delivered locally along its whole length. Secondly the rapid developments in science across all fields will apply equally to transmission technologies. This is a problem to be overcome just like all the other problems which are clearly being surmounted, if indeed it is a problem in economic terms. It is not an immutable law of physics.