Wind farms: Britain is 'running out of wind' [ATTACH] 29 May...

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    Wind farms: Britain is 'running out of wind'

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    29 May 2011
    Despite the freak gales that battered parts of the country last week, climate experts are warning that many of Britain’s wind farms may soon run out of puff.

    According to government figures, 13 of the past 16 months have been calmer than normal - while 2010 was the “stillest” year of the past decade.
    Meteorologists believe that changes to the Atlantic jet stream could alter the pattern of winds over the next 40 years and leave much of the nation’s growing army of power-generating turbines becalmed...

    telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/windpower/8545306/Wind-farms-Britain-is-running-out-of-wind.html
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