Steve Firth wrote:
"Tim W" wrote:
"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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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.

Are Germans producing more or less CO2 than they were in 2000?

For electrical generation, broadly 'no change'. It got a lot worse when
they switched off a couple of nukes, and marginally improved when more
wind was added. www.carma.org is your friend here.


How much of French energy is bring supplied 24/7 by nukes that emit no CO2?


80% of their grid approximately.,

How much CO2 is emitted by the windmill
Industry? (hint, a lot).

The problem is that they do not have to account for the EXTRA CO2
emitted by their manufacture, installation maintenance and above all
balancing.

Every watt of wind power is treated as if it were a watt that generated
*no CO2 emissions anywhere else* as a result of it being there.

When I heard some loony lefty saying '80,000 jobs created by wind power'
I just wondered whether they were all going to be driving/sailing to
maintain these things everywhere out at sea and in remote places. Bet
they don't cost the fuel used to do THAT.