19/09/08 - Forget wind - use our coal
Published Date:
19 September 2008
Tom Kennedy (Letters, September 12) says a wind farm 'in the Californian desert is awe-inspiring'. Well, maybe but today (Friday) the wind speed here is 3 mph, well below the speed needed to turn a wind turbine.
This idleness happens far too often as high pressure systems pass across us.
We protest about the Thackson's Well proposal because without a guaranteed high price for the electricity it might produce, nobody would invest in it. Moreover it would ruin the Vale of Belvoir. We have more than 300 years supply of coal in this country which remains untouched thanks to the Tory government. We have almost no gas left in the North Sea and a declining supply of oil.
We could have many British coal fired generators using carbon-capture and with the help of E-on and EDF, an increasing number of nuclear powered generators. Both of these would work all the time, reduce CO2 emission and make us independent of Russia.
Michael Negus
Dale Road, Grantham
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19 September 2008 10:06 AM
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