FOR the installed turbine capacity of around 8,400 mega watts and with much trumpeting a new high UK wind turbine generation record was announced on the 14th of September 2012 of 4,131 mega watts. Much was then said that it can now be shown that sceptics who lobby against wind simply have their figures wrong.
For the same turbine capacity not a word has been said about the new low record set on the 7th of April 2013 of 77 mega watts.
When the carbon critics get rid of coal and the dissenters get rid of nuclear how is such a tiny output figure to be balanced when the national demand for the same period was 32,000 mega watts.
Perhaps the pro-wind farm lobby simply do not understand that a tiny output of 77 mega watts from the combined total of all UK wind farms is totally unacceptable to meets the demands of today`s modern world.
DOUG MILLS, Fraser Road, Poole
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