"Cost per KWH is substantially higher with small solar to electric ground based systems than with large systems" : sorry, but you just cannot say that. 1/3rd of electricity costs are DISTRIBUTION COSTS. So tha means unless you get around 33% more efficiency by concentrating production (which was indeed the case for fuel plants), concentration is a loser game. What is eerie here is that solar energy comes to the ground already distributed. Concentrating it at no added efficiency just to add costs of distribution is unfortunately a total nonsense.