“...wind is intermittent,”
...except on the High Plains of Texas, where it is pretty well constant. The use of windmills for power generation there and the next huge wind farm planned along the coast of Texas will prove to be almost as profitable as the oil/gas business has been.
I lived Flagstaff, Az. The wind never stop blowing. The Navajo’s wanted to put a wind farm on their land by Winslow but the rancher didn’t want it.
NOT IN MY BACK YARD THING You can not conserve your way out of a man made problem