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Maybe I missed some points by skimming, but the arguments made in that article are that:
1 Australian researcher agrees with his stance
a region had 22% of its power produced by wind at one point
I guess the claim "it can be argued" is technically proven true, but the majority opinion I keep hearing from the electrical grid engineers in the news is the opposite
And, well, sometimes it just simply is night, and sometimes the wind doesn't blow. We don't have the battery tech to run from storage alone
But, honestly why wouldn't we use nuclear? It's the one power source we have without any real downsides untill ITER finally brings positive results
Do you really think this isn't already taken into account?
Nobody is making that argument, as far as I'm aware. There are plenty of ways of storing energy, e.g. pumped hydro, that would work in conjunction with battery storage.
The obvious one. It's wildly expensive when compared to renewables, and that's before the usual nuclear build issues of cost and schedule overruns.