And this polluted air and water vapor certainly will be carried to the near shore and left as an oily residue on everything from trees to electrical transformers, just as the salt from seawater
often coats
several kilometers inland in the wake of a hurricane.
for a start the infrastructure required to supply our electricity would be far far less compared to when power is sent long distances from where it is produced, there are also quite substantial losses just getting the power to those living
several hundred
kilometers away, for instance I am told that they lose around 14 % of the power produced in the Latrobe Valley just getting it to Melbourne, Solar on the other hand is
often far closer to where the power is required, therefore there are less distribution costs and also less losses involved.