FRANK Hooley (Elegance of turbines, Letters, September 11) is surely not suggesting that the teeming tourists he saw in southern Spain went to view wind turbines?
They would have gone for other factors including spending their days swimming in pools and lying in the Spanish sunshine, an asset lacking in the Marches! Our area attracts tourists and day/weekend visitors with different types of interest, especially outdoor activities.
He talks of Nimbyism not being helpful: around £10 billion of tourist income is more helpful than a few megawatt hours of electricity and excessive subsidies paid to a handful of people.
Industrial structures belong in cities where most energy is consumed and wasted. They might not be as efficient as on a beautiful hilltop but the polluter would pay and there would be savings in infrastructure and power losses in cables.
R GARVEY Bush Bank, Hereford
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