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That would be thanks to the Mistral and Tramontane.
I have lived near Marseille a couple of years back: it is a windy country.
by Bernard (bernard) on Mon Jan 18th, 2010 at 12:06:31 PM EST
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I did too, and it makes me wonder if there is such a thing for this as too much windstrength.

When it blows hard, I can't imagine a 80km/h windgust is exploitable. But, maybe it s...

The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet. Winston Churchill

by r------ on Mon Jan 18th, 2010 at 04:16:15 PM EST
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The wind resource is great. The difficulty onshore is to find locations that don't disturb people, and offshore to find somewhere not too deep and not to close to shore.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Jan 18th, 2010 at 04:30:19 PM EST
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