Editor

I refer to Mr Deakin’s letter last week (‘Cost of nuclear power too high’). Can we please stop promoting the idea that we can use renewables and don’t have to rely on nuclear energy.

For sound technical reasons we have to have preferably at least 30 per cent of our electrical energy consistently and continually available and not just because it occasionally gets dark, the wind stops blowing and the rivers stop filling lakes. Our electricity grid has to maintain a constant frequency for all the windfarms etc to synchronise to that’s how a national grid works or doesn’t as was the case when last August, Little Barford gasfired power station tripped out quickly followed by an off-shore wind farm, resulting in all sorts of chaos in the South East.

So if not nuclear or fossil fuels, how do you propose to meet this 30 per cent basic threshold Mr Deakin? Your Electric Mountain at Llanberis (not near Llandudno) was established as a storage “battery” to enable the now closed Wylfa nuclear power station to generate continuously at maximum power and store its output when not required.

Painful though it is, we need to have some real discussions about what we have to forgo in our efforts to save the planet and I for one will believe we are serious when government acts seriously and I have a little list to get started: 1. patio heaters some French towns are already banning them; 2. hot tubs; 3. leaf blowers; 4. jet skis. Perhaps your readers might like to add more.

Trevor Warner Llandecwyn

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