Wind turbines can only supply electricity when the wind blows, and as long as inexpensive energy storage remains elusive, utility companies will have to combine wind with a resource that can be banked in reserve, like gas.
Conversely, there's no way to store excess electricity when the wind blows unexpectedly hard.
When the wind blows in the Netherlands, wind power can flow north.
But just as when the wind blows a leaf upward, the law of gravity remains intact, so too with the law of demand.
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There are some pockets of decent maritime warming right near the coast, which almost certainly are increasing snowfall substantially when the wind blows onshore.
In places, even its primeval marrow juts out: where the river flattens we slide evenly past eerie, vertical folds of Vishnu schist, which our guides tell us whistle when the wind blows through its billion-year-old fins.
Lord knows when the cold wind blows, it'll turn my head around.
Yet wind is far from a perfect source of electricity, since the wind blows when and where it will.
It's big and shiny, built in 90 days, but the contractor put it together in a way that when the first stiff wind comes, the house blows down.
Wind blows strongest at night, when electricity demand is low.
The researchers modeled their study on the electric grid in Illinois, which depends on a large number of coal and gas plants, and where the wind blows strongest at night, when demand is lowest.
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However, when you look at the media hype every time the wind blows she is supposedly back with the loser John whats his name or she is seeing Brad Split from Jolie.
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"When they come close to the Sun, this ice melts - solar wind blows this material out into space, so you get a tail of matter coming off the comet, " explains O'Brien.
Because the wind blows inconsistently, power companies would have to turn fossil-fuel plants on when windmills fall still.
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