May I put things in perspective regarding claims by Ian Welch, on October 4, and a wind turbine at Thoulstone.

First, it is very dramatic to claim it is a huge ever-moving machine, and how can it spoil the view over Cley Hill?

There has been no proven real medical condition caused by wind turbines, and the RSPB has found out that they do not affect birds except in certain migratory paths out at sea, while loss of roosting, feeding and breeding habitat caused by human activities and the shooting of millions of our migratory birds in Europe and Malta have a huge impact on birds, so blaming wind turbines is just a red herring.

Of course, as with any such systems when there are grants, there is a rush to cash in.

I don’t want to see acres of our countryside covered in wind turbines and solar panels, but we are in this mess because of a lack of long-term thinking and funding into research and development into renewables by past administrations, like wind, solar and waves.

This is 21st-century technology and the future, not 19th and 20th- century technology of finite fossil fuels, where we should have had solar built into all big buildings and homes, and waves systems such as osmosis ocean thermal energy conversion and vortex and later systems, as well as well-placed wind turbines.

Energy can now be stored instead of the usual short-term policies and knee-jerk actions, so there is a lot of catching up to do.

The Danes have built a huge wave energy platform far out in the North Sea called white-wave and now added solar and wind.

Yet we have the flat earth lobby still stuck in the past, and now pushing fracking with all the environmental damage that it is bringing.

Of course fracking is not so visible as wind turbines, so out of sight out of mind.

David Thomas, Hisomley, Nr Westbury.