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

Arons has shown that this is also the case with Hg terminals, but no intermittence has been detected with terminals of C, Ag or Cu.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 8 "Conduction, Electric" by Various