>...The comic is a bit disingenious as it implies that all renewables are intermittent.
No, I don't think it does that.
>...But many renewable energy sources are base load as well, e.g. hydro or wind.
As user rsynnott said "Wind most certainly isn't base load." While hydro is base load power, only a few countries like China are considering building more hydro plants. We aren't going to be able to use hydro as a means to get off of burning fossil fuels.
No, I don't think it does that.
>...But many renewable energy sources are base load as well, e.g. hydro or wind.
As user rsynnott said "Wind most certainly isn't base load." While hydro is base load power, only a few countries like China are considering building more hydro plants. We aren't going to be able to use hydro as a means to get off of burning fossil fuels.