I don't know much or actually anything about engineering, but what if the grid just stretched really far from East-West so that night time and daytime had a lot of overlap?
There's considerable losses in energy transmission, actually (see 'lengthy distribution lines'). You could alleviate this by lowering resistance on the line itself - but superconductors are a real pain to build for long distances and costly to maintain in themselves (gotta cool them constantly n shit)
I don't know much or actually anything about engineering, but what if the grid just stretched really far from East-West so that night time and daytime had a lot of overlap?
There's considerable losses in energy transmission, actually (see 'lengthy distribution lines'). You could alleviate this by lowering resistance on the line itself - but superconductors are a real pain to build for long distances and costly to maintain in themselves (gotta cool them constantly n shit)