intermittence

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Renewable-energy sources carry burdens of their own—including the intermittence of solar and wind power, for which battery storage generally can’t fully compensate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

As battery costs have fallen, short-duration energy storage can now offset the intermittence of wind and solar for some users.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

They offer narratives of belief, and novelistic narratives make real the ambiguity, the contradiction, the intermittence, even the absurdity and comic irrationality of our intellectual lives.

From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2011

This intermittence is the kindest explanation of Novelist Lewis' great gallery of flops.

From Time Magazine Archive

I remember he wound up with my health, proposed in a speech of small variety and considerable intermittence.

From The War of the Worlds by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)