The need of wind energy

Again Mark Duchamp (Wind Farm Debate 2) still does not get it!

He says: The one thing wind energy does not provide is security.

There will very soon come a day when the dwindling last remains of oil that exists in the Middle East, which is pumped at high pressure using freshly-desalinated water from energy-intensive reverse osmosis plants along the Saudi coastline, will come to a dribble; most of those oil wells are over 50 years old.

It happened in the United States; it is as we speak happening in both the UK and the Norwegian parts of the North Sea; it has happened in 50 of the world's most prolific oil fields even recently causing Indonesia to leave Opec. Let's not kid ourselves. America's and Britain's escapades in the Middle East have little or nothing to do with democracy but more to do with peak oil and reserving the dominance of the American petrol dollar since oil has become the new gold standard.

That's right, Mr Duchamp, the world is fast running out of black gold. Don't believe me, I'm just a PR man as you insinuate.

Ask the people at Aspo or the people at the soil association or even ask UK MP Michael Meacher or UK MP John Hemmings. Even ask what US Vice President Dick Cheney's secret energy task force was up to and you will soon get the picture.

Mr Duchamp does make some true and interesting points though. Wind energy is intermittent and energy harvested from the wind is difficult to store.

However, just off the coast of Essex sits one huge wind farm that will create enough power for 700,000 homes intermittently and probably create most of the power for the 2012 London Olympics if they go ahead.

Spain's recent power cuts where also experienced all over Europe; it had nothing or little to do with wind farms, so don't be hoodwinked by Mr Duchamp.

There is nothing better than wind power than no power and since the effects of the peak and decline of oil and gas will have a severe effect on air travel and transportation in general, I doubt there will be that many tourists to see those ghastly monstrosities.

As for Mr Duchamp's argument that the wind bubble will burst, I've never heard so much nonsense. Across the planet wind energy is growing at a phenomenal rate, even schools in the United Kingdom are erecting wind turbines and generating large amounts of free electricity.

I would urge readers to ignore his arguments as they are baseless and he obviously doesn't care about the future generations of our children... just his beloved birds!