On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:37:44 +0100, Java Jive wrote:

A terrorist would have to knock out a hell of a lot of windmills
scattered over the country to make a difference. It would be a lot
easier to fly some planes into some nuclear power stations.

This is an extremely valid security reason for not putting all of one's
energy producing eggs in the same basket.

Diversity is the key to future stability and sufficiency in electrical
power/heating generation from roof top solar cells, micro-hydroelectric
schemes, to CHP, to clean coal power stations, and nuclear power stations.