CHILLING thoughts of Navitus wind farm proposals have been low profile for a while now.


With wild ideas bouncing around for even quadrupling our use of wind power very shortly to meet magic performance of our all electric zero carbon society, opposition will get swept aside in the forced onrush return to these ideas at any cost.


If there really is a pressing need for these obscenities off our coastline, should there be a rethink for a negotiable stance?


Giving ground by both sides is how negotiations usually work.


What about turbines, perhaps twice the number, twice the size, and saving bathing parents and children paddling amidst these gargantuan vulgarities, a bit further offshore. Say 30 or 40 miles?


From the scene aspect, atmospheric visibility at this range is rare.


Secondly, because of the earth’s curvature, at this distance, they will be significantly over the horizon and not fully visible in any case.


Spotting mills at distance on rare occasions of extreme visibility would give enthusiasts like twitchers the opportunity to line clifftops in droves to observe and photograph rare sightings of such artifacts.


What about the pros and cons to the turbine makers?


Rethink turbines! NOT as electricity generators for thousands of homes, but developed and costed as autonomous chemical plants using the free unlimited raw materials of seawater and wind power?


Yes, oodles of electricity would be generated, but only for local consumption in the production of hydrogen to power thousands of cars and infrastructure.


Production would include industrial by-products as oxygen, and as we all know, an abundance of salt and many more minerals for the taking.


One of these is pure drinking water to ease human avarice and overload on the freshwater rivers we deplete for our ever-increasing demands.


In periods of abundance, bulk hydrogen can readily be stored for lean times.


No routs of the seabed or countryside for connecting cables.


Clean, ocean fresh and ready to use yields collected and shipped ashore by tankers.


A bit like, although unlike, the black gold we get delivered from the Middle East.


Produce would be collected from the turbine chemical plants when their little smart meters tell the tankers the mill needs emptying.


Our vehicles would owe credit they deserve to hydrogen-powered electric, not bureaucratically-forced battery powered milk-float evolution.


Hydrogen powered electric is a natural advancement of which all car users and petrolheads could be proud.


Sounds like a win/win situation all round to me, what’s not to like?


DAVE PORTER
Furze Hill Drive, Poole