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I call BS. Look at this map of Canadian hydro power stations: https://hydro.canadiangeographic.ca/

Some of the largest stations by output are in northern Quebec (one of the most "middle of nowhere" regions in the world) and their power gets sold as far away as NYC.

Similarly for Chile and Argentina which have quite a few huge dams in Patagonia, which is also extremely remote.

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You do have to build very expensive transmission lines to transport that energy. In some places in the world it's simply not economically viable.

In some places there are volcanos. The "in some places" argument doesn't hold, when it's clearly very effective in many other ones.

Plus most of humanity lives within the same 100 mile range of water, esp. oceans, and the bulk of humanity live in areas with lots of sun.

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