Anyone reading your article on wind farms (15 February) will surely wonder whence has come the great enthusiasm of recent governments for them.
As you report, they raise the cost of electricity to all consumers, have a limited 20 year life span, are regarded by many as a blot on the landscape, and, perhaps most damming of all, have a highly variable and unpredictable output that occasionally falls to almost nothing, thus requiring full back-up from conventional sources.
Yet the government still retains the target of 15% renewable energy by 2020, most of which will have to come from the wind.
Surely it is time to switch this enthusiasm to carbon-free nuclear power, which suffers from none of these disadvantages.
One new nuclear power station, built on an existing site, could replace all the British windmills ever built. Yet after years of delay, the first next generation nuclear power station seems as far away as ever.
