> No battery farm can protect a solar/wind grid from an arbitrarily extended period of bad weather.
I don’t understand why wind solar is subject to absolutes devoid of probability - “what if the sun and wind stop simultaneously for 2 months?”
We know the probability that the sun stops shining and the wind stops blowing for N days, we can calculate it from historical data.
You can absolutely build solar+wind+storage systems that deliver 24/7/365 energy with many nines SLAs, on the real earth with real statistics on weather.
I don’t understand why wind solar is subject to absolutes devoid of probability - “what if the sun and wind stop simultaneously for 2 months?”
We know the probability that the sun stops shining and the wind stops blowing for N days, we can calculate it from historical data.
You can absolutely build solar+wind+storage systems that deliver 24/7/365 energy with many nines SLAs, on the real earth with real statistics on weather.