On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:19:34 +0100, "Tim W"
wrote:

It isn't really a question about wind power but about any kind of electrical
generation because electricity is difficult to store, demand is constantly
fluctuating and supply has to be altered the whole time. To repeat what I
have had to say about twenty times in this thread - Wind power needs to be
part of a mix. That means that if you had a wholly renewable energy supply
( and we are a long way off that ) it would need to be a mixture of maybe
Wind, solar, biomass, waves, tidal, greatly improved storage, and improved
efficiency. So when the sun isn't shining it isn't windy, it's high tide and
the sea is calm you need to fire up the elephant grass furnace to take up
the slack. None of these fluctuations is totally unpredictable, the weather
is never the same from one end of the country to the other. Obviously if you
throw in a bit of nuclear then it all gets a bit easier but that is another
issue.

No generatiing method is without it's drawbacks. What happens when Russia
turns off the gas? What if the miners go on strike? What about Al Quaeda
flying into Hinkley Point? A Tsunami ffs? You need a mixture, and wind power
works

Bzzzt wrong.

....and you were doing so well right up to that point.

If wind turbines were any better they would still be totally f*cking
useless.


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