[xroche]

It is somehow addressed, but with unreliable wind power sources that ca'n't be controled:

> We’re closing coal plants and building wind farms and it all just has to add up in the end. It’s not a one-to-one

And of course this won't cover the loss of energy, so let's pretend we can do that through "energy efficiency"

>You can make up that power by the way you operate the rest of your facilities or having energy efficiency savings so your customers are using less

Tl;Dr for the energy side: Smoke and mirrors.

[Cthulhu_]

But you can place a lot more wind farms (at higher total capacity) than hydro, which is dependent on environment.

I don't understand the anti-wind sentiment in this thread. Yeah it's not ideal, but neither is hydro or nuclear. But all of them combined and mixed, they can make up for each other's shortfalls.

[Extropy_]

Would you mind explaining why nuclear is not ideal?