Blow our cares away

Sydney Morning Herald
16 July 2011, Page: 21

I read in the Australian Energy Market Operator's 2011 draft South Australian Supply and Demand Outlook report that SA's greenhouse gas production from electricity generation fell from about 10 million tonnes in 2005/06 to about 8 million tonnes in 2010/11 and that this was mainly due to wind power.

I love the look of wind turbines on the nearby ridges and I was very pleased to see that they are having a significant impact on our greenhouse gas production. I'm a grandfather and, like many other people, would love to think that the world my granddaughter grows up in will not be greatly damaged by climate change.

The usefulness of wind turbines being proven by such reports as the above, and the dire possibilities of uncontrolled climate change being well known, the question arises of why so few people are willing to support wind power in the media and so many willing to disparage it? (Should the reader happen to be in the very small minority, he/she could look up Yes2Renewables.)

David Clarke, Armagh via Clare (SA)


Please note that the so called alternative sources of energy will not be very alternative when the Earth runs out of fossil fuels. So, what then? What will be the alternative?

Richard Ratajczak, Forest Lodge