On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:32:37 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

On 28/03/2011 12:57, Tim W wrote:

A wind farm doesn't produce carbon. If you want figures you can google them
yourself.

Depends on where you draw your boundaries. Building the thing and
putting place the grid architecture to connect (often out of the way
places) obviously produces some. As will maintaining the thing.

To incorporate its output into the grid one must also have some
proportion of spinning reserve, and that does produce carbon.

....the proportion approaching 100% give or take a bit



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