From Kuno van der Post
Ian Hore-Lacy is absolutely right – let us match wind power and nuclear on a “level playing field”, as he puts it (4 June, p 28). Let wind power be developed for 60 years; let billions of pounds of government money be spent researching it; let the world’s top engineers and scientists be employed; let the land be commandeered for it, without answering to opposition; let it be a top national priority, as if it were an essential component of a war effort. Let it receive all the advantages that have befallen nuclear power and then say whether or not it matches up.
Imagine what would happen to renewables with the kind of effort that has been wasted on fusion: over 30 years and billions of dollars have yet to return a single watt of usable energy from that massive collaboration. Wind power already works, so it might become better than our wildest dreams.
London, UK
