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

This should give rise either to intermittence in the star’s light or else to variability.

From History of Astronomy by Forbes, George