What do we the public know about them through reading the press, listening to the news, tempered with common sense and simple logic?

First – they are definitely not turbines, they generally have three blades – each up to 70 feet long – turning at about 22 revs per minute. Not a turbine.

From observation each blade emits a low frequency whoomph as it passes the column. So one whoomph every second.
Clever men have convinced government ministers that taxpayers' money should be spent on these modern devices that are not turbines.

Our ministers don't seem to know that a three-bladed 340 feet high behemoth is not a turbine, even if it goes whoomph whoomph.

Second – we are told they will supply 30,000 homes. When the wind drops we don't get any power.
So, in reality they don't supply us, they only waft at the whim of the wind and the real power stations do the consistent work.

Third – they say it's cheap. It isn't. It is more than twice the cost of conventional power.
Fourth – apparently they are environmentally friendly. If you can call the outer end of the blade travelling at nearly 200mph that.

They inform us they do not harm birds. Should we believe that?

Fifth – wind turbines are meant to help save the planet. From what?
Sixth – they leave a low carbon footprint, allegedly.
Not in their manufacture they don't – that takes years to get back.
Seventh – they don't affect house prices? What a joke! I live near Bicker, come and buy my house.

You will want a discount. I will not want to give you one. You won't buy. I like Bicker, spoilt though it is.
Eighth – they supplement the power from conventional power stations, apparently. No wind wafters have ever replaced a power station.

Worldwide, however, a number of conventional power stations have been built to back up wind wafters.
I am genuinely amazed that any politician would want to be associated with this development, that is so obviously a scam.

There is, in my opinion, a danger that the politicians might get labelled with their protégés.

CHARLES HICKSON
Bicker