Let your factory sit partly idle sometimes and you increase the capital cost per unit of production.

If wind/solar depends on this sort of thing, then basically it's imposing an externality on factories, and we should account for that as part of their cost.

I'm all for preventing global warming, I just want to do it in the way that's most cost-effective for society as a whole, and that probably means including nuclear as part of the solution so we don't have to shut down factories when the wind doesn't blow at night.

? Except you're talking about _seasonal_ differences in sunlight availability.

I'm really glad I'll be able to run my power-hungry electronics like a refrigerator during peak production times, like during the spring!

We'll just have to make sure that people go to the hospital during probably-non-uninterruptible power windows.

Sorry, but you're dealing with human beings and actual society, not a car factory. Leave me out of your plans.

Industrial consumes 1/3 of US electricity. This is about the same amount as residential use. This isn't about your fridge.