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6th February 2011

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theeconomist: Daily chart: the windy world. In 2010 China overtook America as the world leader in wind power, and now accounts for 22% of the world’s total wind power capacity. Globally, however, the installation of new wind power facilities has started to slow.   I would suggest a few reasons for this. First of all, whilst wind power is great, it’s not really that useful in a country-wide power grid - it’s too variable and unpredictable in a system that follows patterns. Secondly, China has a huge power grid that means that on average wind power is going to be usable because somewhere is always likely to be producing power.

theeconomist:

Daily chart: the windy world. In 2010 China overtook America as the world leader in wind power, and now accounts for 22% of the world’s total wind power capacity. Globally, however, the installation of new wind power facilities has started to slow.  

I would suggest a few reasons for this.

First of all, whilst wind power is great, it’s not really that useful in a country-wide power grid - it’s too variable and unpredictable in a system that follows patterns.

Secondly, China has a huge power grid that means that on average wind power is going to be usable because somewhere is always likely to be producing power.

Source: economist.com

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