Not only would you have to double and double again, you’d have to double and double that to have enough spare energy during the day to store in yet to be invented storage technology to last at least 18 hours during winter with few hours of sunshine over the northern half of the USA… and don’t forget weeks of cloudy skies…
They are shipping sunlight from the sahara to britain
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q…
The world’s longest subsea cable will send clean energy from Morocco to the UK
April 21, 2022, update: Subsea cable manufacturer XLCC is going to build a factory in Hunterston, Scotland, and its first output will be for the Xlinks Morocco-UK Power Project. It will supply four 2,361-mile-long (3,800 km) subsea cables, with the first phase between 2025-2027 connecting wind and solar power generated in Morocco to Alverdiscott, North Devon.
https://electrek.co/2022/04/21/the-worlds-longest-subsea-cab…
“If god wanted us to fly he would have given us wings.” The Wright brothers’ preacher uncle a few days before their first flight.
Denny Schlesinger