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

DJ Paradise Lost will play during film intermittence and before the competition, which will start at 10 pm.

From Time Magazine Archive

The wagons moved as ships tossed on a stormy sea, chuck! chuck! from boulder to boulder, without intermittence.

From Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales by Hartmann, George (Henry George August)