Dear Editor
Irish tentacles
When I was a small boy many moons ago the Irish were the butt of many a joke. But in the 21st Century the tables are being turned with Irish developers transforming the irreplaceable and beautiful landscape of Wales with unpredictable, erratic and ugly so-called ecological friendly means of power generation. It is not only the Welsh being taken for fools, as Wiltshire will possibly be falling foul to such inane development as the Irish tentacles are spreading everywhere. The latest being the proposed Lime Green Solar Farm, a development by the Irish company, Island Green Power.
Wiltshire council’s carbon neutral target for solar renewables is 590MW and has already been exceeded, so why this additional eyesore? Surely Wiltshire Council is worldly wise enough to know that when the sun does not shine, or at night, no generation will be forthcoming.
Even the dimmest in the class will appreciate that in the depth of winter when the demand for heating and lighting is at its highest, solar generation will be at its lowest! The answer to all this foolishness is the building of more efficient, cheaper and relatively cleaner CCGT gas-fired power stations – which can be much more environmentally acceptable if fed with pre-heated geothermal water (the City of Bath is near the border of Wiltshire) – but it takes the will, imagination and intelligence to do so.
Dave Haskell
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