Can Solar and Wind Run a Country, Reliability Limits, Good Science vs Bad Science

In the 52nd installment of The Atomic Exchange Podcast, co-hosts Dr. Goran Calic and Michael Tadrous break down a Nature Communications paper asking a simple question: can wind and solar reliably power an entire country year-round? They walk through what the study finds when you add storage, overbuild, and bigger grid connections, then explain why key real-world constraints like transmission and practicality change the policy story. The takeaway is straightforward: renewables can cover a lot, but reliability still needs firm power like nuclear, hydro, or gas.