The type of catastrophe that solar and wind need to prevent are "There's no sun/wind for more days than we planned for" which absolutely can be devastating and no amount of skilled people can fix
>The type of catastrophe that solar and wind need to prevent are "There's no sun/wind for more days than we planned for" which absolutely can be devastating
Absolutely, and with renewables that's part of the consideration from the start since everyone is well aware of it.
What you describe is in fact one of the major downsides to nuclear, since they generate so much energy in one point of failure.
Having a (ahem) redundant array of inexpensive devices generating power is much less likely to suffer abrupt and large losses such as the one europe suffered just last week, when their largest reactor went offline for a few days. https://yle.fi/a/74-20061159
Absolutely, and with renewables that's part of the consideration from the start since everyone is well aware of it.
What you describe is in fact one of the major downsides to nuclear, since they generate so much energy in one point of failure.
Having a (ahem) redundant array of inexpensive devices generating power is much less likely to suffer abrupt and large losses such as the one europe suffered just last week, when their largest reactor went offline for a few days. https://yle.fi/a/74-20061159