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How we can use wind power when there’s no wind

Posted by Mal Chadwick - 12th January 2018

Anyone who’s a fan of clean energy has heard the argument that “the wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine”. This is called ‘intermittency’ – the idea that you might not get a constant flow of power from a particular source. All energy sources are intermittent (… Read More

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