"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 17:18:28 GMT, Janet Baraclough
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In Oz they have become aware of the unsolved problem of wind
farms
producing output when it can't be used and not producing output
when
it is needed, just as the Danes have after both have invested a
vast
amount in wind farms. UK next?

The UK has a national power grid and high population density
so there
isn't any problem of UK windfarms producing surplus power that
can't be
used; they just feed it into the grid.

There is exactly the same problem in UK as any where else. You
can't
just feed it into the grid, it needs to be consumed.

Oz can't send the surplus from windfarms to be used elsewhere,
because of the lack of grid connections. For the same reason
Denmark
also can't send surplus power (whatever way it's generated) from
one
side of the country to where it's needed at the other.

Really? Why not?

The UK can, which
is an advantage over both those countries on the issues you cited
above.

Franz