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But again this is due to the fact that electricity can't yet be stored very effectively or efficiently. Most electricity is needed at night, in the winter.

That's what I had in mind! With a gap one atom wide between the plates!

But no-one has yet invented a good way of storing electricity.

I'll try! Basically if you get a high pressure system over the whole of the UK, like in the image below, there won't be enough wind to make turbines spin pretty much anywhere round our coast. Therefore, you need to have another form of more reliable energy generating the base load. When this...

I think he means replacing the existing turf, which should be easy enough if done carefully (and quickly) by a skilled JCB operator.

Very true, in fact it may even benefit from disturbance. All this will be shown in the EIA. Unfortunately, all these NIMBYs achieve is to delay things for several years, as they did with the stadium. Which in the end, costs us all money as tax payers.

Pfffft, it's only 37 miles. It was clear from Woodingdean the other day though, as was Portsmouth.

Wind turbines cannot be an effective source of energy until we have a European electric grid.