A. Dinou writing about bird fatalities from wind turbines (Sunday Mail, September 1) has got the facts completely wrong.
There are millions of birds (and bats) killed by turbines, and relatively few by aircraft, though large numbers of migratory birds perish by flying into oil platform flares.
A. Dinou says wind is free. It is, but the cost of creating electricity from it is incredibly expensive, especially from offshore units. Mixing up bladder cancer and wars with the simple arithmetic associated with wasteful and ineffective wind farms is just a red herring.
Data released by one of the UK’s largest green energy companies only last month showed that a farm with 17 huge turbines produced enough electricity to boil two to three kettles at a time. Also last month three big farms even took electricity out of the UK’s National Grid to run basic power supplies on site.
Incidentally, I am not actually a birds’ rights champion. I am simply concerned to point out some of the many now widely recognised disadvantages of pouring vast sums of taxpayers’ money into an almost useless and desperately uneconomic so-called alternative energy source.
Clive Turner, Paphos
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