BBC was spruiking the following this week on its World Business Report. plenty of laughs:
3 Apr: Bloomberg: China Wants to Power the World
A Global Energy Interconnection would create a supergrid that spans the globe.
By Adam Minter
(China’s State Grid Corporation) Chairman Liu Zhenya has a plan that he believes will stall global warming, put millions of people to work and bring about world peace by 2050...
Among other benefits, according to Liu, the system will produce “a community of common destiny for all mankind with blue skies and green land.”...
State Grid estimates it would cost $50 trillion to develop a truly global grid...
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-04-03/china-s-state-grid-wants-to-power-the-whole-world