> doesn't cooperate for time T+1, you're in trouble. Unscheduled maintenance intervals exist everywhere. This is not a unique problem. > They are intermitten

> doesn't cooperate for time T+1, you're in trouble. Unscheduled maintenance intervals exist everywhere. This is not a unique problem. > They are intermittent and unreliable. On a 24 hour ahead basis. On a year to year basis, they're always available, and are absurdly reliable. > And natural gas is a poor choice if greenhouse emissions matter. There is nothing that can save you from being required to hold a broad mix of power generation technologies. Building a monoculture here is completely counterproductive and probably hastens the destruction. > despite it being extremely tiny and safely contained That container is mechanical. It has a failure rate. Failures never occur when you _want_ them to. Again, a _depth_ of strategies is appropriate here. "Send it by train then bury it under a mountain and just forget about it" is not an actual strategy. It seems to work, because we probably just don't know any better yet, but the people who are uncomfortable are right to be so. Pretending that they simply lack "education" is a pretty rude point of view.