You can’t just turn the wind down. When it blows hard, those turbines spin and spin and the output is tremendous. The young control room operator with whom I sat watching the weather as it approached and moved through widely scattered wind farms told me with a note of awe in his voice that you can actually see a gust of wind as it tops the Rockies and then hits one set of turbines after another all the way to the coast. You can see it in the power spikes—bang, bang, bang—of wind farm after wind farm shooting electricity into the system. It floods the grid; it crashes through the infrastructure
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