If the UK built enough wind turbines, it could power itself using nothing but wind energy, without any storage. The wind doesn't go to 0, ever. You would need

If the UK built enough wind turbines, it could power itself using nothing but wind energy, without any storage. The wind doesn't go to 0, ever. You would need a _lot_ of turbines, but that is a solved problem. We have the space and the resources. Obviously this won't be the solution, nor would any reasonable person want it to be (because there are better solutions available), but I am quite tired of hearing 'but wind is not always available'. It's a true but pointless argument to make (because of the above point). To clarify -- if you massively overprovision for peak demand, then in times where wind is low there would still be enough energy generated even in peak demand. We could then even sell the extra energy for times when wind is high to neighbouring countries.