DEAR EDITOR, - I trust that your readers, staff and good self enjoyed a nice relaxing Christmas break.
It's just as well that they did not have to rely on wind energy for their electricity.
Otherwise, they would have been faced with no lights, no heat and no telly on Christmas Day. They would also have had to contemplate eating raw turkey.
The evidence is on www.metoffice.com/education/archive/uk, which proves that as the UK entered Christmas Day after midnight, only the Isle of Portland, out of 70 UK Met Offices, had a wind speed in excess of nine knots.
Not enough to spin any wind turbines from John O'Groats to Land's End. Santa would have got lost in the pitch black over Britain!
The only bright light over Britain on Christmas Eve would have been the wind turbine, which lit up the sky over the Nissan car plant in Sunderland. It had burst into flames earlier, causing the fibre glass blades to burn fiercely and eventually fall off.
They even had to shut the nearby, busy A19. Imagine that happening to one of the three 475 foot wind turbines, proposed for the Total Oil Refinery, Milford Haven.
They will be twice the height and width of the Sunderland turbine.
It does not bear thinking about!
L. J Jenkins, Clyn-yr-ynys, Gwbert, Cardigan
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