If we could harness the hot air spoken by many MPs, councillors and officials, it might be possible to propel the minimum of 11,000 giant wind turbines the Government proposes to site offshore, on cliffs and moors, allegedly to provide electricity.
But nature can’t produce the constant wind to do it.
This is ignored by the Government, gullible or deceitful, take your pick.
They say they are necessary to meet EU requirements and to provide us with power.
Don’t you despair at the guile o
r gullibility of our elected representatives both local and national?
Or is it that they are enthusiastic about these proposals and already salivating at the thought of the jobsworths they will insist are required to oversee the system?
Increasing wind assessment supervisor, decreasing wind assessment supervisor, increasing wind warning office, decreasing wind warning officer, team co-ordinating supervisor.
Travelling teams of public awareness executives, their assistants and mobile units, and so the bloated public sector will continue to bloat until it busts because the fewer people employed in it won’t be able to pay council and income tax to support it.
That won’t stop our masters, Labour or Conservative.
The EU has spoken and must be obeyed.
What is ignored is that the 2,000 turbines already operating here still produce less electricity than one conventional power station because the wind is so intermittent and unpredictable they operate at less than one third of their capacity.
To meet EU demands we would have to erect four turbines every working day for the next 12 years.
This is laughable when you consider the present inability of our planning and engineering teams to maintain roads and railways.
Brunel and Stephenson never would have built bridges and railways with their attitude.
This is not the US with a philosophy of ‘let’s get up and go’ where construction teams work through the night to avoid public inconvenience.
Many of our crews seem intent to prove who can do less in the longest possible time.
So forget the possibility we will meet the target of four turbines a day.
And be grateful for it.
Not content with disfiguring our countryside with eco town this government would despoil areas like ours with useless wind turbines.
They hate the countryside.
And I would like an assurance from the roof propeller man, Cameron, that his government would build nuclear reactors.
As has the French government where, as a result, they didn’t have an energy problem.
It is our only hope.
Please ignore the modern campaigning eco warriors.
They were wrong about the bomb and they were wrong about these monstrous turbines.
J Clarke, Egton Bridge
The full article contains 453 words and appears in Whitby Gazette Tuesday newspaper.
