intermittency
Americannoun
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With most powertrains, the intermittency of stop-start cycling is no great loss—it’s not like I’m missing the sweaty chatter of the average turbo four.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Risks are migrating to electricity and renewable fuels faced with new vulnerabilities, such as intermittency and grid-integration challenges.
From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025
Jacob said without more storage it will be harder to integrate wind and solar energy into the grid even if new renewable energy projects come up, because of its intermittency.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
And of course, the intermittency of sunlight patterns can weaken a solar system without attached storage infrastructure, through batteries or other means, as the aforementioned DOE study noted.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2022
We are both Scots besides, and I suspect both rather Scotty Scots; my own Scotchness tends to intermittency, but is at times erisypelitous - if that be rightly spelt.
From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 by Robert Louis Stevenson
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