Blackjacks, down memory lane

I have been talking on another forum about Blackjacks the sweets we used to munch on as children, the image is from here.

The modern wrapper is somewhat different..... from here

I wonder why they changed it ?

What I said.

Image nicked from here,

Britain, which aims to install about 30 gigawatts (GW) of wind turbines by 2020, will need to build almost as much backup power generation for calm weather periods, an executive from Scottish Power said on Wednesday.

The government is relying heavily on the growth of wind power to meet tough EU renewable energy targets and promises another £525 million in support for offshore wind as part of Wednesday's budget.

But the more wind turbines Britain erects the more conventional plants it will need.

"Thirty gigawatts of wind maybe requires 25 GW of backup," said Rupert Steele, regulation director at the Scottish arm of Spain's Iberdrola, one of the world's largest wind farm operators.

"The problem is that if you've got a high-pressured area, you may have quite a large area where there's no wind at all ... That happens also offshore," he told Reuters.

Britain plans to install as much as 30 gigawatt of wind capacity, mostly offshore, as part of its efforts to source 20 percent of its energy from renewables by 2020.

At end-2008, it had wind capacity totalling 3.24 GW, including 2.65 GW onshore and 566 megawatts (MW) offshore. It is to reach 4 GW later in 2009 and 5 GW early next year.

Scottish Power had installed capacity of 665 MW by the end of last year and is close to completing Whitelee Windfarm, near Glasgow, which will be Europe's largest onshore site with 140 turbines.

Steele said wind farms usually had a load factor of 30 percent, which meant they provided 30 percent of named plate capacity over the year.

(Reporting by Nao Nakanishi) Yahoo News

There is, of course, no money in the budget to build the power stations.

Just what we need, more windchimes.

I read that the budget will include a figure with lots of noughts at the end of it to promote more wind turbines. The government is obviously out to get the 'stupid' vote to shore up their 'grandfather used to vote labour' vote.
The map above is from xcweather and shows that not a single turbine in The British Isles, onshore or offshore will be producing any useful power today as there will be no wind of more than 10mph. The forecast for the next few days is more of the same, I look at this site daily as the wind strength and direction is important in my decision whether to go to the coast to do some fishing and/or the the bit of coast where the wind is favourable. This situation of high pressure sitting over the area happens time and time again... and each time the gas, coal and nuclear power stations will have to turn the wick up to make up for the shortfall.

Windchimes are put up by trendies, usually 'wimmin' who are 'finding themselves': the chimes have no function other than to announce when the wind blows, they are expensive, irritatingly noisy, a waste of money and completly pointless..... although your 'trendy' will lay claim to a spiritual gain.

Exactly; wind-chime, wind-turbine

Debate with Yasin, a challenge.

Space left here for a debate

Yasin, feel free to write in the comment section and I will transfer it to the dialogue in this post....

.......................put in links to support your argument, like the grown ups do.