Wind energy is produced cleanly - the pollution from it has already been done in the manufacture of the turbines which are essentially big alternators like you have in your car - magnets and copper wire. Hairdryers, drills and other motors from dentists torture implements to your coffee grinder, food mixer, electric water pump and bike dynamo are all related - magnets and copper.

There is some excess heat lost in the environment from the electricity moving through the wires alright but I don't know what the loss is - it is different for AC and DC.

Haven't I explained all this already with help from baby brother on another thread?

Depends on the wire - called i (squared) r losses; Every piece of wire has its own resistance - so the loss depends on how much power is going through it.

Which is why if you upgrade to a higher voltage, ie, double it, you quarter your power losses in the line because you halve your current.

And yes, he is looking over my shoulder as I write.

Tender all questions and I will put them to him tomorrow when he sobers up from the wedding he's on the way to.

Kate P wrote:

Haven't I explained all this already with help from baby brother on another thread?

Depends on the wire - called i (squared) r losses; Every piece of wire has its own resistance - so the loss depends on how much power is going through it.

Which is why if you upgrade to a higher voltage, ie, double it, you quarter your power losses in the line because you halve your current.

And yes, he is looking over my shoulder as I write.

Tender all questions and I will put them to him tomorrow when he sobers up from the wedding he's on the way to.

That is interesting. In Spain I think the voltage allowed in households is much lower. Everything goes off if you try to iron and make tea at the same time. Once you get used to it its good, as it is a reminder that we are using a precious commodity.

Hold on to your hats lads and lasses, it's getting windy!

A great day here for whooshing out the cobwebs. It's windy but sunny and warm.

And look at it now, we're near full capacity on wind production!

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

And look at it now, we're near full capacity on wind production!

And Dun Laoghaire Rathdown has launched its plug in electric car scheme. Do they take airtricity?

I can't sleep for listening to the wind - it sounds like waves crashing against the rocks at Doolin or Leitir Mór and it's magical.

The windows are open and the curtains are moving like shy girls who want to dance, wallflowers that just can't summon the courage to get on the dancefloor but still can't stop moving, a little reservedly, in time with the music.

July 1 my eye!

Today is like one of those November Tuesdays when you dashed from the schoolbus to the locker area, got wet going to every class and looked out of steamy classroom windows knowing that you hadn't a hope of kicking, football on a day like this.

It's not the season for it, but it is a proper rainy day. Nothing half-hearted about this one...

Not nice weather today, raining cats and dogs out there.

Here's a picture of the weather in London last Saturday afternoon

I'm fucking sick of it. It's absolute crap weather.

I don't know which is worse, facing financial ruin or this poxy weather.

Just as well I'm off to the Cote d'Azur on Saturday. Though it doesn't look much better there.

I just drove through 6 different weathers in a 30 mile drive.
The lady from the Met on the radio confirmed that warmer sea temperatures are to blame, and held out no hope for the next week. She did say that Cork was having some sun though

Hope you have a lovely holiday EvotingMachine0197.

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

I'm fucking sick of it. It's absolute crap weather.

I don't know which is worse, facing financial ruin or this poxy weather.

Just as well I'm off to the Cote d'Azur on Saturday. Though it doesn't look much better there.

Where abouts? Summers swanning around Nice are always my favourite

Antibes. Just down the road from Nice.

I'll try and bring back some good weather if I can get it through security.
I'll be gone for a week so hopefully the economy will be back to OK by the time I get back

What a day. I was out steel-fixing in that bloody weather, not fun. I blame... gosh Noonan or McDowell? I blame McDowell for the weather, the bloody bastard. I hope his lakeside house is flooded.

It's to be very wet this weekend;






umbrella futures are up 4% in sympathy.

Sweet, suffering succutash! It has been a wash-out today, rain sheeting down in pulsing down-pours. It's been a soaker today in the capital. What a Summer we're having!

We had that earlier this week. Incredible stuff - the kind of showers that we're used to lasting two minutes in a thunderous burst just went on and on and on. On Sunday I would have needed waders to get to the end of my driveway. We had some heavy rain today but it's a fine evening.

Yep, the sun can start shining again any time after Sunday, when I'll be ready for it...

Having just come back from a sunnier climate, its a bit of a shock to be wading around here again. Global warming is a bummer eh. Teagasc told us it was going to mean that we could grow grapes in Galway.

*groan* meant to be camping up around the Giants Causeway this week, we decided to cancel because of the unpredictability of the weather... not that I'm a wuzzy or anything .... but cycling with tents in the rain ain't the most fun.

I managed to bring back 15 trillion bottles of Cote d'Azur sunshine last night. Should keep us going for a few days.

I hear some parts have their month's quota of rain already. When is Saint Swithin's day?

Lovely day today, had a nice walk after church and then played a game of tennis this evening.

We had our cemetary Sunday today, when did these things stop being graveyards? I spent all day figuring out how to get a pump working.

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I hear some parts have their month's quota of rain already. When is Saint Swithin's day?

Tuesday this week...