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grufty jim

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Re: wind farms

May 03, 2006, 18:07

I wrote:
>
> Offshore windfarms (on the Atlantic coast of Europe) could
> meet the electricity needs of all Europe, not just a handful
> of Swedes.
>
To which Bonzo replied...
>
> Sounds indeed promising, and who would be bothered if
> they stand off the coast far enough. Still, sceptic as I am,
> I'd like to see it in figures. So should you have a link...
>
Indeed.

According to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) the total electricity demand for Europe is roughly 3,000 TWh...

http://www.no-fuel.org/index.php?id=241

(I extrapolated this figure from their claim that 83 TWh is provided by current windfarms and that equates to 2.8% of European demand).

Then check out the UK government estimate of potential wind power resources (Table 2.2 in the follwoing PDF)...

http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/leg_and_reg/consents/future_offshore/chp2.pdf

If you combine the totals from the 5m - 30m farms and the 30m - 50m farms, you get over 3,200 TWh. And that's the UK alone! It doesn't include Scandanavia, Ireland, etc etc etc.

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wind farms – micmacmoc, May 02, 2006, 20:14


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