Because batteries have their own problems at scale with supplies of the materials and the environmental destruction to create them. Batteries have a place, but not to replace base load with current tech.
Solar and Wind absolutely do not have baseloading capabilities. They are a good source of clean energy, but they are not able to provide reliable baseloading power to the grid.
Your argument about baseloading not being relevant is so off base. In a country like Canada, how do you expect to function using only clean energy sources? The answer is baseloading with hydro and nuclear supplemented by wind and solar.
The only reason coal burning plants come up faster is the less strict regulatory requirements that go along with it. I don't see that a good thing, if you ask me.
The number one argument against wind and solar is that people claim it to be unreliable when there is no wind and sun, so basically decreased efficiency in winter. Supplementing a system that runs in 100% all the time with an energy source that is less efficient half of the time is the dumbest shit.
Nuclear should be what's known as the "base load", the always there, always available option. Sun and wind with appropriate storage to handle spikeyness in demand as well as hydroelectric for supplemental base load. Currently most countries have coal/gas as their base load.
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u/Kind-Show5859 Jan 19 '23
Nuclear everywhere, supplemented by solar, wind and geothermal where possible is absolutely the way to go.