SIR – Yet again there is opposition to wind turbines (‘Bronte fans fight new wind turbines’, T&A August 21).
Fossil fuels will in the next decades become so expensive that the cost of electricity generated by them will be unaffordable. Neither can life as we know it afford the resulting continuing increase in CO2 emissions and consequent rise in world average temperatures. So we have to use renewable technology to generate electricity. Our needs will double as other means of generation are phased out. Why not produce our own in Bradford? Our only sufficient renewable resource is wind.
Ovenden Moor is one of the windiest places in Bradford. Far from opposing Calderdale’s enlarged wind turbines, we should follow their example and build our own on our side of the Ovenden Moor border.
We, the citizens and businesses of Bradford, should invest our own money – whether £10 or £100,000 – in energy co-operatives using these modern methods of generating energy, then we can say where they should be sited. We can share the profits. We could thus invest in our future and help determine it.
John D Anderson, Bramham Drive, Baildon
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