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CAES (compressed air energy storage)
A way to really get solar to work for the whole country has already been studied and a paper written on it.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan
Compressed air energy storage, photovoltaics, solar thermal electric, wind, HVDC (high voltage direct current) transmission. They have studied projections out to 2100 with 95% replacement of fossil fuels, plugin hybrid cars. A conservative projection based on 2020 possibilities of technology advances.
Iowa is developing compressed air energy storage with their wind fields.
http://www.princeton.edu/~cmi/research/Capture/Presentations/CAES.ppt