General Discussion

We were on a bus and she showed me a photo of the wind turbines on the Lake Erie shore at Buffalo. It was a winter scene, with ice and snow. The "windmills" were totally still. She laughed. I said did not get the joke. She said that wind energy is useless when everything freezes.

I said that rhe energy gets stored when the turbines are active and winds off the lake at Buffalo are known to be strong and usually continuous, especially in winter. Plenty of stored energy for windless days. She looked puzzled and hurt that I mentioned storage. Did not say anything more about it.

The driver overheard us and winked at me.