On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:58:28 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

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.

All the more reason to burn Greenpeace, FoE, BWEA, and other assorted
greenwash dip****s at the stake.

....at the predicted peak output today at 1700 hours you could "power
117,000 homes" *

* Possibly for as long as 1/50th of a second
* where 1 home = 1kW
* assuming the wind still blows
* assuming bits don't fall off them
* assuming the wind doesn't blow too much

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