All the windmills in the UK are not supplying enough electricity to charge one I phone in every house in the country

The Natural Philosopher · 2012-06-26T01:23:34+00:00

01:36:31 Tuesday, 26 June 2012===============================Renewable Britain: A report.Bristol channel is at high tide. No tidal power would be produced by the highest tidal range in the UK at this point in time.Its dark. No solar power is generating anything - unless its under a streetlamp one supposes.A ridge of high pressure sits over the UK The total metered wind output across the whole country is just 31 MW. That's right. 31MW Enough to supply every household (26 million of them) with about 1.2WDemand is over 27GW.The Interconnector to France is totally out of action.The Interconnector from Holland is running flat out (1GW). Its doing more than all the wind in the UK by a factor of 20.Dinorwig is no help. Its being recharged.Even Scottish hydro is doing feck all - 76MW. But that's more than twice what the wind is doing.We hear screams of delight when 'for the first time wind supplied 10% of the grid'Let's hear it for the time when despite the vast amounts of money spent on it, renewable energy was supplying less than 0.05% of the UK demand."All the windmills in the UK are not supplying enough electricity to charge an I pod in every house in the country""All the renewable energy in the country - including hydro - is not enough to light a single energy saving lightbulb in every household in the country"That's £10bn and thousands of landscapes ruined, houses devalued and birds killed, well spent, then.

Jun 26, 2012 44 Replies

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tony sayer 14 years ago

I remember back a long while ago they had an open day of sorts where you could go on or in a section of pipe to see how it was welded and inspected;!..

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Jethro_uk 14 years ago

send robotic pigs through empty pipes to check for corrosion. They had to notify the CAA when venting the pipes, as it made the air above too thin for safe flight !

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The Other Mike 14 years ago

All major gas venting sites are marked on aircraft navigation charts with a minimum advised height.

No idea why they would ever need to inform the CAA as I can't ever recall them being in a NOTAM (notice to airmen) as they are regarded as a fixed hazard just like TV masts and chimney stacks.

Example of one near Duxford mentioned previously and the key from a CAA supplied chart.

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Jethro_uk 14 years ago

AFAICR the location of pipes and offtakes was kept as secret as possible (with the exception of pipes crossing rivers, which had to be marked) as you really wouldn't want to see what a few pounds of HE could do there.

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geoff 14 years ago

In message , Clive Page writes

Keep up at the back there ...

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