Also needs to be repeated again & again when Tjhomas repeats this again & again: this is a shadow debate, because (1) weather-related intermitrency of generation is not the only significant intermittency, there are also the maintenance and emergency shutdowns of thermal and nuclear plants and the diurnal variation of demand; (2) balancing is a separate question of replacing gas and high-grade coal, something neither wind & PV nor nuclear can do.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}