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"Matt" wrote in message
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On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:11:37 GMT, "dennis@home"
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Quite a lot of peak demand is supplied by stored water generation (inside
welsh moutains)


No, SOME peak demand is supplied by pumped storage schemes


Thats what I said.
Quite a lot and SOME have the same meaning.


and by gas turbines which spin up in a few seconds.


That has not been the practice in the UK for about 30 years, they
didn't even run during the miners strike in the 80's


That's odd, they built the one three miles from me since then.