{"id":8215,"date":"2018-08-31T17:29:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T16:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8215"},"modified":"2018-08-31T17:29:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T16:29:47","slug":"one-thing-learnt-week-no-wind-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8215","title":{"rendered":"One thing we have learnt this week – does “no wind” matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"walney<\/a>Does “no wind” matter at least in summer?\u00a0 Are our summers getting calmer?\u00a0 The UK’s renewable data has been released this week.\u00a0 It shows surprise surprise we had a calm summer with little wind.\u00a0 We had lots of hot still weather with lots of solar output.\u00a0 But this did not make up for the lack of wind.\u00a0 Most solar installations are small and most wind installations very large.\u00a0 This has been an exceptional summer.\u00a0 The question is with climate change will it become the norm?\u00a0 I don’t know.\u00a0 But with our having barely having scratched the surface of potential solar installations calm conditions in summer could be a benefit.\u00a0 One potential problem as we have covered before on this blog is what to do with excess power.\u00a0\u00a0 The UK is building masses of new inter-connectors but will the rest of Europe want our power in summer? \u00a0 Possibly not.\u00a0 In principle climate could make the atmosphere more disordered meaning more wind (not always a good thing).<\/p>\n

Does “no wind” matter?\u00a0 I’m sure that’s one question we should answer, the next question I would want to ask is solar output falling.\u00a0 I have raised this question before on this blog.\u00a0 Certainly my solar output seems to be in long term decline (just had a terrible August worst ever) which the great summer does not make up for.\u00a0 Again this fits in with climate change as you would expect more water vapour to end up in the atmosphere.\u00a0 What we need is plenty (but not excessive) wind in winter when there is little in the way of solar output.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Does “no wind” matter at least in summer?\u00a0 Are our summers getting calmer?\u00a0 The UK’s renewable data has been released this week.\u00a0 It shows surprise surprise we had a calm summer with little wind.\u00a0 We had lots of hot still … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17,4,1],"tags":[269,61],"class_list":["post-8215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-one-thing-we-have-learnt-this-week","category-renewables","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-renewable-energy"],"yoast_head":"\nOne thing we have learnt this week - does "no wind" matter? - The oil lamp - shining God's light on peak oil<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8215\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8215\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8215\",\"name\":\"One thing we have learnt this week - does \\\"no wind\\\" matter? 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