tony sayer wrote:
In article , Tim W
scribeth thus
"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...
You have to love all that diversity ('the wind is always blowing
somewhere'), in the equinoctial windiness of March, today the metered wind
output (23MW) dipped below 1% of 'metered capacity' and looks to stay
that way all day.

It's nice to know that that capacity that 'could supply up to (insert own
bull**** value here) millions of homes' (in themselves not where the
largest consumption of electricity takes place) is in fact barely capable
of driving 10,000 electric kettles to make a morning cuppa.


Or about 4 electric locomotives of decent power output.

(http://www.bmreports.com/bsp/bsp_home.htm)


It is, in fact, to put it in perspective, about 1/50th of the nice nuclear
energy currently being imported from France..


You can always rely on windmills to ....completely fail to deliver,
randomly.


Not too sure what you are on about.

Wind power doesn't work when it isn't windy? We knew that.

So it needs to be mixed with other sources? We knew that too.

German Wind farms produced about 7% of the energy consumed in Germany in
2009. That is a heck of a significant delivery.

Tim W



All of the time;?...
None of the time. To do that it would have to represent an average of
21% of all German electrical generation (that being about 1/3rd of 'the
energy consumed in Germany')

which means that at times, it would exceed the total grid output..

Its a typical wind lobby lie.