[ZeroGravitas]

Which would be great if demand didn't vary by time of day and season.

But, it's neat the way that flaw has been rebranded as "baseload". The extra energy you need when people wake up and go to work? That's someone else's problem.

[gimmeThaBeet]

I’m gonna be blunt, that’s a strange position. I mean, even just math wise/FFT, you can break down a lot of stuff into a dc component plus your variable component.

But the other part is you can absolutely adjust the output of a nuclear reactor, we just don’t because the availability is there. Look up the largest power stations in the us/globally, and sort by capacity factor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_power_statio...