I agree with all of this. I get annoyed with the conversations surrounding wind and solar, but I don't dislike the techs themselves. They have a place and are great, and solar is mind-bogglingly affordable right now. I've seen utility companies offering them """for free""" (you lease, your electricity covers the cost of lease, no money for extra generated) because it's so cheap now.
But we need, as you said, a baseload. Nobody is really discussing how to create this, they're just saying we should magically invent an incredibly dense battery (more energy-dense than hydrocarbons, ideally, or let's say within 50% as useful) using technologies nobody can even fathom. Meanwhile, we're seeing breakthroughs in fusion tech, miles ahead of the usefulness of fission, which is miles ahead of anything else we have right now.
I just don't understand the aversion to a clean, renewable power source.
But we need, as you said, a baseload. Nobody is really discussing how to create this, they're just saying we should magically invent an incredibly dense battery (more energy-dense than hydrocarbons, ideally, or let's say within 50% as useful) using technologies nobody can even fathom. Meanwhile, we're seeing breakthroughs in fusion tech, miles ahead of the usefulness of fission, which is miles ahead of anything else we have right now.
I just don't understand the aversion to a clean, renewable power source.