a £100bn programme to build thousands of offshore wind turbines that could power most of Britain's households during strong winds
What are we speaking of, that is in terms of MW-s of generating capacity and TWh-s of expected annual generated electricity?
If we are here: can anyone dig up figures on total wind power generation (TWh) in the UK in 2009? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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I just started into reading your link; there's a graph saying "Wind & wave" was at 7.1 TWh in 2008. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
It's a marketing gimmick of the wind industry, fairly widely used. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes