When the wind turnines fail though through lack of wind what happens to all the homes across the country? are they thrown into darkness? are their cookers switched off? Do theie television screens go blank and the kettle goes quiet? No what happens is the normal bog standard power station kicks in with immediate effect to take up the slack.
How is a coal, Gas or Nuclear fired power station about to take up the slack immediately? surely it takes a while to warm things up to power the turbines as we dont switch on the kettle or the electric shower and have instant hot water do we?
What happens is these lovely green wind turbines which rotate away in the wind and make us all feel good when we flick the light switch are sold to us as a lie. Wind Turbines are a costly way of providing power to the grid as to be in a position to take up the slack at the drop of a switch the conventional power stations are running away at the same time as the wind turbines but not adding their power to the grid but none the less they are ticking away on idle ready for when they wind drops.
Now tell me how green is this? also do the energy companies actually want the energy that domestic houses generate surplus to their needs and send back into the grid? I suspect not as they have over capacity when its windy anyway otherwise their conventional power stations wouldn't be ticking away.
When the old steam engines generated too much pressure they released steam to stop the engine blowing up much the same happens at our power stations and one only has to look at how Power rationed on 'green island' Eigg after mild weather caused drought to know that green wind energy can be very unreliable.
Wind Turbines may be suitable to supplement a domestic homes energy needs but a reliable source of energy for the national grid it is not.
