Windmills might be fine for pumping out polders, drying fens or levels when the wind is appropriate. As a source of industrial and domestic power, they are grossly uneconomic and inappropriate.

Who has assessed the amount of carbon dioxide produced in making synthetic resin, fibre glass, steel and the machining and labour of making them?

My guess is that it produces more carbon dioxide (CO2 for short) than they could save in a life time.

That is if you are a victim of CO2 hysteria. I am just a heretic.

CO2 is a minor atmospheric gas, but a vital life support gas. Yes, it has gone up by a third, but there is so little of it that it is very doubtful whether it could have any global warming effect anyway. It is certainly not pollution.

Nature has produced buried fossil fuels for our benefit, and it is taking CO2 out of the atmosphere today and making more on and below the sea bed, the same as it always has done. And with ample spare capacity!

The windmills are only one example of the economic madness in which the country is indulging.

To argue by reducing the matter to absurdity; you could pay people 100% subsidy to run around in circles, or dig holes and fill them up again. Voila! You have achieved full employment!

The welfare state sector of course, really is 100% subsidised; but much of the rest gets subsidies, or selective tax on competition, to persuade people (at the whim of opinion) to indulge in wasteful activity that would not be possible in a free market. I see the situation as very serious. We are on a steepening slope of economic decline, which the politicians do not seem to understand and do not want to know about.

We need to cut subsidies, selective taxes and gimmicks. Give free initiatives a chance.

R Bratt, Old Castle Road, Weymouth

 

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