Night time? But batteries! Several cloudy days in a row? More batteries! Cost? -> a mix of sources becomes attractive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taum_Sauk_Hydroelectric_Power_...
Or we could just spin some rocks around.
https://www.torus.co/torus-flywheel
Rather have solar/wind and this than shipping depleting goop from foreign nations.
can you find curves like this for any other power source?
also batteries are getting exponentially cheap too
In almost all pareto optimal least cost energy system models that I've seen, high penetration of solar, wind, batteries plus some minority amount of (clean) baseload power is the most capital efficient energy system.