So your grand plan is to keep carbon emitting sources until batteries can completely cover the baseload in all conditions? That’s a non-solution.

Batteries, limited as they are, can certainly mitigate ramping issues with nuclear, though.

Talk to me when it’s all battery and no gas. That’s what nuclear would be replacing, not the renewables. Nuclear and solar/wind complement each other.

Pretending that the baseload problem is solved for solar and wind doesn’t help anybody. “batteries work”, but not at the scale of the demands of a power utility when wind and solar happen not to be producing.

I didn’t realize they stopped; what happened? I don’t remember hearing a hodler outcry.