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OnlinePoker

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20. That only works when the wind is blowing or the waves are coming.

Reply to Erich Bloodaxe BSN (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 31, 2014, 05:58 PM

Mar 2014

Today, for instance, wind has sat at about 4% of total generated electricity. There were a couple of times this month when it was down to zero. The vast majority of U.K. power comes from either Coal or Gas.

http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

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James Lovelock: environmentalism has become a religion [View all] GliderGuider Mar 2014 OP

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