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Old 3rd May 2012, 19:44
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Personally I find windfarms useful as navigation points

Up here in the Heelands King Alex loves wind power and often blaws about how much energy we are producing; whatever it is, its nowhere near the stunning level of thermal & excremental energy that King Alex farts out of his facial orifice with his constant talking of pish, perhaps we should wire him up to a big turbine and connect him to the national grid, he could power the whole of Europe, never mind Scotland. Anyway, to get back to the point, politicians and Greens love to chuck figures at us about the stunning vast energy that is produced by windfarms, yet nobody is so forthcoming about how much power getting produced by the things when they are stationary, the wind's not blowing, or how much of the energy actually gets lost in the conversion to good old AC Amperes and distribution into the grid. Which is what makes Smithy somewhat skeptical of said technology.

Brilliant idea, all for it in principle, but at current seems rather useless. Much like King Alex, come to think of it.
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