Wind power is unreliable
BECAUSE it is expensive and unreliable, wind generation should not make up more than a small percentage of our power supply capacity.
The risk of power cuts that they cause has been averted so far by reduced electricity demand due to the de-industrialisation of Britain.
Industry has been transferred to China, where a new power station is built every week.
How does this reduce overall fossil-fuel usage?
China now burns over a billion tons of coal a year. Credible research at University of Northumbria suggests a Little Ice Age by 2030 due to reduced heat from the sun. How are we going to warm ourselves with wind turbines if wind patterns change with the climate?
RICHARD DURRANT
Parkstone Road, Poole
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