[droffel]

Solar and wind are nice, but they don't solve the base load problem. They aren't consistent enough to operate as base load on a power grid. They are certainly convenient for maintaining peak load, but without solving the energy storage issue in parallel to the added capacity, we need alternatives.

[natmaka]

Spreading out production units of a mix (wind, solar, hydro, geothermal...) is key. For the sole wind: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/180592/european-cooperation-...

Then comes storage, curtailment, and backup (always necessary: fossil-fuel plants always produce around 9% of electricity in fully-nuclearized France).

Moreover backup is now provided thanks to gas turbines, and we know to run them thanks to hydrogen (clean), which can be green hydrogen (cleanly produced thanks to renewable sources overproduction).

[nixass]

>Spreading out production units of a mix (wind, solar, hydro, geothermal...) is key.

Sure. Let me just build hydro dam where there's no hills and dig some geothermal where's no geothermal activity and we're all set!