Wind turbines used to absorb a power surplus?

That's very far from clear.

Enron wasn't a monopoly.

The thing about a multi-player competitive market is that some of the players occasionally die. That's sort of fundamental, doubly so in the tech business.

So is altruism.

A dropbox folder stores files and links. It doesn't have theories.

The private-jet billionaire greenies are sure trying to keep the poorest people poor.

How cold do you think it might get inside your house if you had no heat? In much of the US, it would be uncomfortable but not dangerous.

You just claimed that yours are regulated monopolys.

But when there is competition, that's just a yawn, you just change to someone else with no loss of service.

And yes that happened to me recently.

But no big deal when it happens.

No heat? Depending on the week this winter 10 below. We don't all live in California.

Show me some stats proving there are times when nowhere on the planet is windy.

Or just disconnect it and power the generator/motor directly off the grid.

Why damage? The water would just flow a bit faster. I suppose naked swimmers in the top would get sucked through and have their gentlemen's excusemes chopped off by the blades.

My house? Probably close to 20 F in February. The basement might be a little warmer.

When the wind doesn't blow in the UK it often doesn't blow over most of Northern Europe so where are we going to route these bigger wires? Russia perhaps, or some other country that may hold us to energy ransom?

So when the greens ban oil and no fertilizer is produced from petrochemicals perhaps the increased CO2 will be vital plant growth to feed the world?

It's just a matter of time :(

Er, the old meters don't fail - they just keep running.

The 10 year target for replacing old style meters in the times long before smart meters was for calibration purposes and not because they were likely to completely fail within that time span.

Or higher voltages. You really need to be able to transfer a lot of power for at least 1000 to 2000 km with at least a half decent efficiency.

The calm periods are in large high pressure areas, thus the power must be injected into that area from some windy areas around it.

Look at a meteorological chart and especially at the isobar (equal pressure)curves. The more dense these curves are around a center of low pressure, the higher the winds and hence available power.

In a large high pressure area, there are very few (or none) isobar curves, thus no wind and hence no wind power.

NITROGEN. Fertilizers provide NITROGEN. If a plant doesn't have nitrogen, all the CO2 in the universe won't help.