[pydry]

The fact that you can do this and still be a bit cheaper for those periods than nuclear power is what makes it really ridiculous:

https://theecologist.org/2016/feb/17/wind-power-windgas-chea...

Of course, we'll never stop building nuclear power in spite of this because it provides indirect subsidies for the military.

[chickenbig]

That windgas study is rather poor. I responded to that a few months ago in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40834377#40853888