Chaotic intermittency means wind and solar cannot, and will never, replace coal, gas or nuclear.
The fact that wind and solar output plummets whenever the sun sets and/or calm weather sets in has been treated by RE zealots as (yet another) inconvenient truth, that just won’t go away.
In the first few years of the great wind power fraud in Australia, its promoters kept telling us that all we needed to do was spread these things far and wide and we would have an endless supply of ‘free’ electricity, lovingly caressed from mother nature. Well, that didn’t pan out, as any South Australia will tell you.
So, talk soon turned to mega-batteries, as if the wind and solar industry was like some ditzy shopper who’d forgotten to add milk and bread to their shopping list.
The meme is that the chaos delivered by wind and solar can all be solved…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Mar 20, 2020 @ 22:14:16
EXCEPT SA was without interconnect support for some time and no problems.
Jim it does you no good repeating these inaccurate claims from a site that has no credibility.
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Mar 20, 2020 @ 22:22:09
Did coal powered electricity systems ever invest in battery backup?
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Mar 20, 2020 @ 22:26:38
Their backup was having excess units.
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Mar 20, 2020 @ 23:16:21
Why can’t wind do that?
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Mar 21, 2020 @ 10:10:43
It is owned by the private sector now. They attempt to match demand and supply.
Baseload was always liked by Governments when they owned because they preferred excess supply.
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Mar 21, 2020 @ 13:07:15
Why backup units when batteries are more reliable. Is it common for machines to have a certain number of back up machines because outages are predictable but the backup is reliable
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Mar 21, 2020 @ 13:19:11
Only reliable if you know when they wil break down. no-one does.
coal fired power stations are a waste of time. too costly, unreliable, too much negative externalities.
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