Solar and wind will always need batteries for times of low output, until we get more resilient and larger capacity batteries we will need a backbone to support the electricity grid to avoid having to overbuild battery capacity.
As of right now natural gas is that backbone but that could change and very well be nuclear energy until we figure out something like mass produced solid state batteries.
@yogthos@spicytuna62 I don't mind nuclear but often those touting the virtues of nuclear energy implicitly want to prop up the crazy levels of inefficiency and overproduction of the current global economy with a cleaner energy source. If could stem the bleeding a little bit but the problems I mentioned will have to be addressed at some point.
