Re: Alternative?
"We have all these wind farms which are throwing away power because the grid cannot cope."
The only reason 99% of those windfarms exist is because they got massive subsidies to build them and get subsidies to run them whether they're grid-connected or not. The same applies to solar installations
Some windfarms are paid to _not_ connect to the grid.
Who pays these subsidies? Us - the energy consumers. About 1/3 of your leccy bill in the UK is paying windmills and solar plants at vastly over-the-odds feed-in rates and a good chunk of what's left is paying for all the backing capacity which has to be idle but hot to cater for the unpredictability of supply.
They're not alternative power sources, they're money pits - and they divert from more important long-term forms of power supply which will make them irrelevant anyway.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
