REGARDING the Eneco wind farm plans, the main arguments seem to be concerning the visibility of the turbines.

Both Eneco and the anti brigade are presenting misleading images to suit their argument.

Wind turbines can be dangerous too if they can’t be stopped on a windy day as can be seen on Youtube – search for “exploding wind turbine” and see many films of burning and exploding and collapsing turbines.

What happens to sailing boats that happen to be passing by if a turbine twice the height of Salisbury Cathedral collapses?

I spoke to a design engineer at the Eneco presentation who worked for a major competitor, who was attending the presentation out of interest, and he confirmed that tidal turbine technology was not far away from being successfully concluded and that wind turbines, at 30 per cent efficiency, would therefore be obsolete well before their projected cycle of use for an island such as the UK.

The totally predictable tides work 24 hours a day 365 days a year, and these turbines are under the water out of sight There is an obvious way to determine the visualisation issue.

On a calm clear day, arrange for several fishing boats to suspend helium balloons one above the other to the correct height, width and colour of the wind turbines, so that we can view them from the cliff top, not the 3.4 metres ‘median’ viewpoint as depicted in the mist-covered images presented by Eneco.

Make a big day of it, get a sponsor to pay for it, get it on TV, and give lots of publicity for Bournemouth. Maybe at the air show?

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