Depends on the wind turbine. Usually they are rated for quite low wind speeds. So it is easy to have them on 200% and more CF.

Question is: do you have consistent wind, that is more interesting than any CF.

Erm,

Denmark is not north of the UK ... not even really north of England.

Jet streams have no influence on weather on the ground. I suggest you check what they are :D and how they work.

Regarding wind power, I doubt that UK has anything which makes it superior to Denmark. To have good places for wind power you only need long coast lines, or high hills. Scotland surely has more "hills" ... but Denmark has enough windy coasts.

I've seen a number of large projects (tens of thousands of lines of code)
This is a contradiction in itself.
10,000 lines even multiple of them, like 90,000 lines, is by no means "a large project".

The systems I work on usually have like 10,000 classes! no one bothers to count the lines though.

the primary code editing tools used by the developers were exclusively text editors like nano and vim - there is no IDE during development.
That is their problem ... we had this: vi(m) is better than an IDE talk a few days ago ... already.

Try Groovy/Scala, both have operator overloading.

I also would prefer if Java would have been more C++ like ...

Originally Java was supported by Apple, Steve Jobs once said he wants that Macs are "the best Java platform".

However around Java 1.5 he changed his opinion and support was always a bit behind.

Since Oracle bought Sun, Java is on Macs on par with anything else.

No idea what you are complaining about.

And I've rarely gotten multiple versions of Java working on one workstation.
Wow, did you ever consider a different career path?

Ever heard about Shell scripts? The PATH variable and the JAVA_HOME variable?

And slow, Java is slow as molasses in the depths of a winter snow storm.
That myth was not even true 15 years ago,

I am point out instances where it demand is not as controllable as you think.
And? For the rest of the population it holds ...
Dismissing ideas just because you know they don't work for YOU is pretty stupid.

We use cloth racks.

Because I live in an apartment and we are not allowed to have launder machines in our apartments

By what law? Rofl ... you certainly live in a third world country!

Your discussion makes no sense anyway. If the washing machine is in the basement and the drier, too, why are you arguing about electricity prices and smart grids and when to wash and when not to wash if all that does not even apply to you?

Erm, compared to what?

Denmark is one of the most windy countries in the world.

You must be mixing up something.

You brought the 30,000 feet issue :D which is actually only 10km, so not very long.

20 tons? You did the math? sounds not much to me.

An airplane weights like 130 tons.

Well, the problem with analogies is: they break sooner or later.

No one ever will be able to put more power into a cable than it can transport. The heating and breaking is a no issue. So much power you simply can not produce.

What you mean with "substation" is beyond me, perhaps a transformer?

Bottom line you can not put more power into the grid than you consume ... that is a no brainer if you know how grids work.

So your analogies make no sense as your argumentation is wrong on fundamental principles.

Wet cloths left for hours equals mold.
No it does not.

Peak pricing helps a bit but is not a complete solution
A solution to what?

You actually don't know what you are talking about. Bringing peak and off peak into your talks does not help your point of view.

And they sit wet in the washer until you put them in the drier. No one in his sane mind uses a drier anyway. No idea why you base your arguments around that.
And: there exist washing machine / drier combinations. If you need a drier so desperately why don't you by a combo?

Agreed, nevertheless: I'm right and the parent was wrong.
Perhaps you should have stayed more on topic than on orthography?

Likely Solstats.

Like the parent my energy bill is dropping every year, but the news claim the price per kw/h would increase.

For me it did not increase since ten years or more.

Modern wind turbines are at about 40-50% capacity factor.
Already then, someone made a mistake setting up the plant at that spot.

You should not place a wind plant at a place where you have less than 4000 hours per year maximum/rated yield. If you do that right you are automatically above 50% CF.

A perfect placed ... usually off shore ... wind turbine has a CF of 200% - 400%