HOLLAND ACCUSES BELGIUM OF STEALING THEIR WIND

A Dutch weather forecaster has accused Belgium of inadvertently stealing wind from their wind turbines in the North Sea. Remco Verzijlbergh, CEO of Dutch weather forecasting service Whiffle, claims wind farms in Belgium are reportedly taking up to 3% of wind energy from Dutch wind turbines. He says, “A wind turbine is designed to extract wind from the air. If you measure behind a wind turbine, the wind blows less hard. Behind a wind farm with many wind turbines together, you really see lower wind speeds.” He notes that Belgian wind farms are located southwest of the Dutch parks and the wind often comes from the southwest, therefore Belgium often steals some of Holland’s wind. He believes there needs to be an international effort to avoid wind theft.
* Well, the science is sound.
* And the Dutch invented wind! Windmills, remember?!
* Thieving wind turbines? What’s Belgium’s spin on this?
* I don’t know from wind, but this guy sounds like a gasbag.
* He’s like those winds from the southwest – a blowhard.