Coal Back-Up For Wind Power 'Will Cost £100bn'

That's 200 Billion Dollars!

by Jenny Haworth - August 30th, 2008 - The Scotsman

. . . wind energy is so unreliable that even if 13,000 turbines are built to meet EU renewable energy targets, they could be relied on to provide only 7 per cent of the country's peak winter electricity demand.

I wonder if our buddy T Boone Pickens has bothered to investigate the reality that wind rarely blows at night, meaning at the times when we need energy the most we will never be able to rely on wind.