JOHN Edmondson (Letters, October 19) understates the problems associated
with wind turbines. They are just foreign cash machines, sucking in
subsidies and constraint payments and spitting out expensive part-time
electricity, while ruining the landscape and the health of those who live
near them.
But the real problem with wind as an energy source lies ahead, as the
Government continues to reduce fossil and nuclear generation in favour of
wind.
When the windmills reach the end of their working lives they will have to
be replaced, but the foreign companies who built and installed them will be
long gone with the money, and we will then have an energy problem
consisting of inadequate fossil and nuclear, plus the mammoth cost of
replacing the windmills. There will be power cuts, and smart meters will be
used to ration what meagre electricity is left.
Malcolm Parkin, Kinross.
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