News Flash.
We are already in Great Depression II. All the very worst of the New Deal and Jimmy Carter have been combined with the foreign policy ineptitude of the Kennedy-Johnson administration, when we got sucked into Viet Nam and lost open access to Berlin, in addition to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The favorable thing about the Kennedy years is that the war machine was cranked up and feeding the economy here at home, while today we don’t even have that, with a military falling to less than the level of the late 1930’s.
Gotta watch that carbon dioxide level, though.
You want reliable solar power? Put a huge array of solar collection panels in geosynchronous orbit above a fixed receiving point on earth, and transmit the generated power down by a tight microwave beam. No wires, no problems with power transformation, and no interruptions of service. Of course, anything that flies through that tight microwave beam is going to be instantly cooked.
It would be cool to see a flock of Canadian honkers fly through it.