John Rumm wrote:
On 19/10/2010 09:39, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:55:42 +0100, Tim Streater wrote:

http://e-voice.org.uk/hamunitedgroup/ham-hydro/

How much power is this project expected to produce?

"Under our plans, the scheme will generate enough electricity to
power 600 homes ..."

I hate that measure as it can be twisted by the spin doctors.
Generally a "household" is taken to be around 1kW, so this plant is
probably 400 to 600kW.

It also neatly sidesteps the point that most houses don't draw the bulk
of their energy use from the electricity supply anyway.


that is their average ELECTRICITY usage.


Avearage HOUSE overall is 2-5KW depending if you count the energy used
outside of it to e.g. drive too the shops etc etc.

Britain as a nation runs at about 200GW of total energy burn.

That's a shade of 3Kw per PERSON all day every day. To keep you in
frozen pizzas.

If you count impact of imports, its probably a whole lot more than that.

Its about 100,000 windmills and then only when the wind blows. Covering
the whole country end to end.

Or 60 nukes. easily tucked away in quite spots.