On 12/08/2019 11:14, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Steve Walker wrote:
On 11/08/2019 12:30, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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charles wrote:
In article ,
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Anyone see the irony of the recent power cut?

We are told by Turnip etc that wind power has no place in generating our
energy. As the wind doesn't blow 24/7.

Yes when we have a technical failure of a large windfarm, and a
conventional generator at the same time, we have a power cut which
effected millions of people.

But the nuclear lot want to put all our eggs in the one basket...

I don't think anyone has ever suggested on large nuclear power station to
serve the entire country

Neither did I. Or do you think one wind farm could too? Or one gas fired
station?

But wind can be virtually zero across the whole country at the same time
or shut down due to high winds across large areas.

You've rather missed the point that this wasn't the case with this power
cut.

Not at all. I was not saying what failed this time, I was simply
pointing out one simple, single point of failure that can apply to *all*
wind power at the same time. Similarly, night is a single point for
solar power.

No other forms of energy have such a single point vulnerability.

You could argue that coal, gas or diesel are subject to disruption to
supplies from abroad, but that would only reduce availability, not
remove it completely, we have a (small) reserve and supplies can be
routed from elsewhere.

SteveW