David Hansen wrote:
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:39:50 +0100 (BST) someone who may be "Dave
Liquorice" wrote this:-

I hate that measure as it can be twisted by the spin doctors.
Generally a "household" is taken to be around 1kW,

1 kW for what time period?


Forever, dickhead.


1kw is not a measure of energy, its a measure of power.
But windmillers always confuse the two. ou cant have a brain and support
windmills
How the calculation is done for wind is shown at
http://www.bwea.com/edu/calcs.html. I imagine the same approach is
taken for other forms of generation. Average load factors are given
in Table 5.10 of
http://www.decc.gov.uk/assets/decc/Statistics/publications/dukes/311-dukes-2010-ch5.pdf


all irrelevant really.
Since no matter how much they genearet, we syill burtn as much gas
backing the stupid things up.

Usuall WEA spin..