Tidal power needs support

WITHOUT question one of the great challenges facing society is the reduction of harmful atmospheric pollution, especially in areas of high concentration such as large towns and busy cities.

Therefore it is appalling that billions have been wasted on limited wind farms and solar parks. This vast expenditure should have been spent on the pursuance of reliable and clean tidal power around the coast of the UK, especially in regard to the Bristol Channel, which has the second highest tidal range on the planet, and has the potential to produce up to 5% of UK power demand. Tidal power surely needs everyone’s support. But it is disappointing and sad that the irony of felling trees in Wales (be it a hundred or 2 million) for wind farms, appears not to have dawned on misguided wind farm supporters, or the Welsh Assembly. If we foolishly become dependent on wind farms and solar parks, then where will the electricity come from, for example, during icy and windless nights in the winter? Surely it is time the Welsh Assembly stopped hiding behind an inconvenient truth and acknowledged that largescale wind generation, apart from industrialising and desecrating beautiful Welsh countryside, is totally wind-dependent, which obviously results in unpredictable and limited electrical energy output

– a scenario that puts us all in peril regarding security of supply. Indeed, the whole of the UK demands at least 30 GW during the winter months. Dave Haskell

Brithdir, Cardigan