LIKE Rodney Pattisson, “Have Your Say” Feb 20, I trained for a career at sea and served for 10 years as a deck officer on tramps, tankers, banana boats and freighters etc.

Consequently I feel qualified in giving readers of the the Echo some assurances – that for half the year we will not see the wind farm at all.

Sailors call this night time and it is very dark!

It is also a fact that in home waters the average visibility is under five nautical miles, about half way to the wind farm due to rain, mist, haze and falling snow. Locals will be able to approach visitors on the site of the old Imax and inform them: “When you can’t see the wind farm it's raining and when you can, it’s going to rain.”

Contrary to Mr Pattisson’s letter; Ireland is to build perhaps the largest wind farm in Europe on its inland bogs. (BBC news January 23)

Unfortunately this is on behalf of the coalition government which is funding it with our money. Ireland gets all the jobs, bails out its ailing economy to allow it to stay in the eurozone all thanks to the UK taxpayer who then buys the power back at huge cost to users.

Another striking example of the economic illiteracy of George Osborne. If we are to have wind farms let’s build our own.

HOWARD DAVIES, Holme Road, Highcliffe