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The wind industry and its acolytes are none too happy with the weather, because when the wind don’t blow, the power just don’t flow. At a loss to brush away the inherent chaos involved with wind power delivery, these characters are left to curse what they call ‘wind droughts’, as if the weather was something new.

One myth, long busted, is that if you spread enough wind turbines out over a large enough geographical expanse, there will always be wind power available, because “the wind is always blowing somewhere”.

The graphic above shows the location of every wind farm connected to Australia’s Eastern Grid; 79 in all. Turbines – with a combined capacity of 10,277 MW – are located from Far North Queensland, along the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland and all the way down through New South Wales (across to Broken Hill, in Western NSW), all over Victoria…