2aguy
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The wind industry in Britain is over........the wind doesn't blow....or something...
England Giving Up On Wind Power
Hugh McNeal, chief executive of the British wind industry’s trade body, has acknowledgedthat with subsidies at an end, there won’t be any more wind turbine projects in England. Why? The wind doesn’t blow hard enough:
We are almost certainly not talking about the possibility of new plants in England. The project economics wouldn’t work; the wind speeds don’t allow for it.
Then, of course, there is “the cost of operating a conventional fleet of almost unchanged size to guarantee security of supply.” In other words, you can’t count on the wind blowing (just as you can’t count on the Sun shining), so no matter how many turbines you build, you still have to have enough coal, gas or nuclear plants to meet peak demand.
Soooooooooo....we told you so.....
England Giving Up On Wind Power
Hugh McNeal, chief executive of the British wind industry’s trade body, has acknowledgedthat with subsidies at an end, there won’t be any more wind turbine projects in England. Why? The wind doesn’t blow hard enough:
We are almost certainly not talking about the possibility of new plants in England. The project economics wouldn’t work; the wind speeds don’t allow for it.
Then, of course, there is “the cost of operating a conventional fleet of almost unchanged size to guarantee security of supply.” In other words, you can’t count on the wind blowing (just as you can’t count on the Sun shining), so no matter how many turbines you build, you still have to have enough coal, gas or nuclear plants to meet peak demand.
Soooooooooo....we told you so.....