Sorry, I was a bit too combatitive. Anyway, my critique is of the 'if we had gas plants'. But we don't. I see building a wind farm without storage as a similar

Sorry, I was a bit too combatitive. Anyway, my critique is of the 'if we had gas plants'. But we don't. I see building a wind farm without storage as a similar thing to building a coal plant without a high chimney and filters. Sure, your making energy but your just making everyone deal with your shit while making everything worse. Renewables are, currently, incompatible with the current grid past a certain percentage of total production. Anything past that point requires a much more responsible approach. Aka storage is to wind what a damn is to hydro. Now gas can help. But gas isn't storage, it can only help smooth out the bigger disturbances. But since we're already having issues with storage and we're still just at the 'smooth out instabilities' part... I have no idea how we're going to deal with baseload since no one wants to touch nuclear and we can't build them anyway even if we wanted to.