Turbines outdated (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Turbines outdated

8:44am Thursday 23rd February 2012 in Readers' letters By Telegraph & Argus

SIR – The exposure of the notorious University of East Anglia “Climategate” e-mails showed that the so-called ‘consensus’ behind the theory that man-made CO2 is causing our planet to heat up dangerously, is becoming more and more questionable.

Despite this, over the past years, billions have been squandered on schemes to combat this “climate change”. Taxes have been raised, regulations increased, incandescent light bulbs banned, flights made more expensive and landscapes ruined by ugly, inefficient wind farms to deal with what now turns out to have been a highly-dubious argument.

It is becoming more and more obvious that the costs of maintaining and operating wind turbines far outweighs the small amount of power they generate.

So, in America, as they are realising these eyesores are little more than expensive, unreliable, inefficient monstrosities, more than 14,000 of these bird-chomping windmills have been abandoned and now litter the landscape like so much scrap metal.

But, hang on, sanity could be returning. Cameron and Sarkozy have met to discuss a joint venture on civil nuclear energy production. At last. If we are to avoid bankruptcy and power cuts, this is the way forward.

Forget wind farms – they are so last century!

Malcolm Wood, Westercroft View, Northowram