Science Alert: This article is a response to one entitled "Australia: where too much wind will never be enough" by Tom Quirk and published in On Line Opinion. Quirk’s article is a critique of an article of mine called "The Base-Load Fallacy" and published in http://www.energyscience.org.au/ as Briefing Paper No. 16. Since most of Quirk’s points have already been refuted in "The Base-Load Fallacy" and in my book, Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy (UNSW Press, …