Quote Originally Posted by KerrAvon View Post
The problem with windpower is not how the turbines look or with 'political will'. It's with the fact that sometimes it isn't very windy. The same principle applies to solar. Renewable power has its place, but until there is an answer to how the country would get thorugh several weeks of still and overcast weather in mid-winter (which is by no means unusual) it isn't the answer.
several weeks of still weather in winter? really? This summer has been exceptional - nothing like it for decades. But winter? Even in the Vale of York where my stepson lives, fog unbroken for several weeks - I'll ask him, but suspect I know what the answer will be already...