but even so the UK is committed to buying another 10,000 of these things over the next decade, to meet Europe’s climate change targets, by 2020, the Government says 30 per cent of all Britain’s electricity will be generated by wind, that's a real laugh! especially when you consider when energy is needed most when it recently got cold, Britain’s wind farms almost ground to a halt during the coldest spells in December, as temperatures plunged below zero and demand for electricity soared, figures reveal that most of the country’s 3,000 wind turbines were virtually still, energy experts say,
during some of the chilliest weather, all of them were working at less than one-hundredth of capacity, producing electricity for fewer than 30,000 homes, there are 3,153 working turbines in 283 wind farms across the UK, capable of generating more than 5.2 gigawatts of electricity – enough to power almost three million homes, the wind industry says, but at best, turbines work at just 30 to 40 per cent of their capacity, and in cold winter snaps, often caused by vast, slow-moving high-pressure systems over Northern Europe, winds drop to almost nothing, wind farms, great for the owners getting subsidies, but for the tax payer paying for them what a waste.
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