So you will need some methanol tankers to move fuel from places with high winds to places with low winds.
Your seafarers will all be too busy out on the floating wind turbines instead, sailing them into the highest gale force winds up around Greenland to make the most power!
The problem with those reactors is that they are never going to be cheap, while wind turbines for people who live in windy places are now much cheaper than any other power source, so it is hard to see how the reactors are going to be profitable. Maybe with some new discoveries they will turn out to be cheap enough that they can compete with stored wind power, but the wind turbines keep getting bigger, and bigger always results in cheaper power, the wind turbines are well in the lead.
It is a pity he got his explanation wrong. Birds fly faster than the wind every day, they can even fly directly against the wind, just look at how the Albatrosses do it, without even flapping their wings. The secret is in the aerofoils generating lift and when the aerofoil tips are moving at close to 200 mph, the car being a few mph either side of wind speed doesn't make much difference to what is generated.
Wind has been expensive to develop, and the Danes and British taxpayers have paid most of the cost, but there is currently an argument over if the windpower companies will sign up for the next round of UK windfarm government "subsidies", or invest fully themselves, seems like they will probably make the investments themselves so that they make the profits rather than the taxpayer getting most of the profit. Meanwhile the UK is struggling to get nuclear power plants built, the companies that build them don't want to invest even with huge subsidies available, they are too expensive compared to wind! The next one to be built is looking at using spare overnight power to generate hydrogen to improve its profitability, but it is far from clear that it can compete with overnight wind generated hydrogen.
What is this "base load"? It is always presented as an amount that is always used and which wind can't provide, so something else must be used. But overnight our wind can provide all the power we use, Denmark's wind can provide far more than they use, so everything else can be switched off, or put to other uses like generating hydrogen. If anything, it is wind that provides the base load, everything else is there to top up during peak loads, or calm weather, and that is something nuclear power is extremely poor at doing, and if you try using nuclear for that purpose then it becomes very expensive. The best use for nuclear seems to be for things that need constant load, things like aluminium smelters and hydrogen generators, however with wind power becoming so cheap, those uses would rather build some extra capacity and overproduce during windy times and underproduce during calm times, in return for even cheaper power.
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