On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:09:47 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:

On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:56:32 -0800 (PST), sm_jamieson wrote:

The women said the way to deal with intermittant wind was to build
windmills everywhere because "there's always wind somewhere".

I think I uttered the word "********" when she said that. Look at the
last few days, 3GW or so installed wind in the UK,

I take issue with that 3GW or so. It's 4GW with operational metering
(where we can get real world figures to see how **** they are) and
approximately another 3GW where we can't, but their performance won't
be any different.

producing a few
hundred MW. The same has applied over most of Europe recently as
well. Nice large high pressure, an what little wind there is bringing
cold arctic over vast areas. This is not a particularly rare weather
pattern.

No, it happened last winter too, November 2010 iirc.


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