The wind in California tends to blow the strongest at night and in the winter while the sun obviously is at its strongest during the day and in the summer months.

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Meeting Britain's energy needs from onshore wind power would require covering literally the entire country in turbines, even assuming that the wind was guaranteed to blow.

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Only a fool tries to reason with the wind hoping to persuade it to blow in another direction.

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One must be careful that the wind in one's hair doesn't blow one's brains out.

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Nor does the wind blow (a likely source of some of their bought in energy) all of the time.

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