Classical base load mostly does not exist anymore.
So a non dispatchable wind plant: is of course base load. What else would it be?
You orchestrate your load following and load balancing plants around the fire and forget plants and the variations of wind and consumer behaviour.

Wind is by all means base load.

More efficient than a Diesel generator.
And as bonus points it provides clean water.

Depending on region and season, Solar is not intermittent. The sun goes up around 6:00 and goes down around 18:00, shines all day.
A 500W solar panel costs here about $80.
So with your idiotic 25cent per kWh, the panel is paid off in a week or two.

Obviously you have think about battery and inverter. You can go small on the battery if you dump surplus into the cooling trailer and surplus on top of that into the water pump and finally into the bitcoin miner. If your cooler is good enough, it stays cool over night. And battery only needs to cover your LED lights and your internet connection.

So, the question comes with your intermittency ... how do you have to plan, if you have a rain season or something where you have 3 or 4 month lots of clouds? The cooling trailer etc. should be no problem to keep running. And you most likely need a panel more than under optimal conditions.

If we send starship to retrieve samples, we really need to send it with a small constellation of starlink sats modified to do comm, GPS, processing, etc to mars. Likewise, use the same for the moon, perhaps Venus.

For the last 40 years, china has been at work destroying manufacturing foreign nations (which is a big part of why they are the world's worst polluter of all times).
They are somewhat copying Japan's and S. Korea's approach to their build-ups. Basically, high tariffs, heavy subsidies, then once up to par or better then others, heavy exports after dropping subsidies. The difference is that when China gets to the last part, they continue to subsidize, and the government makes heavy use of controlling the companies exports, manufacturing capabilities, etc. which are then dumped so as to destroy foreign, esp. western, industries. Steel is just one of many.

What is needed is for nations to say enough is enough and to raise strong tariffs or even block ALL imported items from China that are being dumped. For example, nations really should block ALL metals that China is trying to import directly or indirectly. Likewise, I was surprised that Biden was stupid enough to relax the PV imports from Chinese companies that simply moved to Viet Nam and other Asian nations on moderate terms with China. All of that needs to be 100% blocked.
Likewise, the batteries need a growing tariff, and to block them from manufacturing in the west, if not other nations esp with their dirty/corrupt supplies ( most of the child labor issues and low pay comes from Chinese-owned mines; this is why China and Russia are pushing coups in Africa ).

About both.

That is most likely not design, but a management decision to cut costs: "Why do we need those extra two interconnects?"

America is not interested to be a first world country with first world infrastructure ... and so on ...

The universe doesn't rotate because there is no reference frame for it to rotate in, if there were then the universe wouldn't be the universe.

Every change looks like corruption in the eyes of people who don't like it.

And corruption looks like evolution to some people.

Personally, I'm in favor of words meaning as much of the same thing over time as possible. It enhances communication and understanding. If you need a new meaning, you either need a new word or you need to explain yourself at a bit more length. Lest you "decimate" (cough) the listener's/reader's understanding... you get me?

You do not need to adapt to cold.
You wear cloth.

And you can not adapt to heat. Yo take active cooling, like water sprayed on you or shadow or wind. Either by using electricity driven things like fans or AC, or water coolers, ice makers: or you do it manually, like carrying ice blocks from the next mountain. Digging caves, living underground, having intelligent (as in your mind) cooling patterns for the house. E.g. keeping windows shadowed and closed during daytime, and when the outside temperature is definitely below the inside one: open them.

Sahara for example will be turning green due to the extra rains from warmer oceans.
You should try to tell that the rain.
As far as we know at the moment, he is not dropping on the Sahara. Neither Gobi.

You can not farm in Siberia.
There is no farm land. That is all tundra and frozen moors. Just because the moors thaw, does not make them farm land. Next winter they freeze again anyway.

And the arctic winter /polar night is as long as always, it has nothing to do with temperature: it is just DARK. ALL DAY LONG.

You can adapt to cold by wearing proper cloth.
Have a house/hut/tent with heating.

Adapting to heat: impossible.

Is a warmer planet all that bad?
Yes it is.
Because if you want to go away from your place where it is unbearable, you need a passport, a transportation, probably money. So ... how does a guy from Bangladesh get the option to settle in Canada or Siberia? Depending on time and regime: there might be dozens of borders where they simply will try to shot him, rape his wife before they shoot her and steal the 2 coins of gold he carries with him.

Mali is in the center of Africa.
El Ninho is a ocean current pattern in the pacific. It hardly has any influence on the other side of the planet.
This current El Ninho is roughly one year old.
It is completely implausible that this summer already an La Ninja pops up.
That will take 5 to 7 years. And there is no guarantee that after an El Ninho you get La Ninja. You easily get 2 in a row.

Oh look, it's the "it's to hard qq" crew. Go back home nobody needs your doomer shit