I MUST congratulate Richard Lane on the eloquent language he uses in his letter of February 26. However, his lyricism doesn’t conceal the brutal truth.

Wind turbines are, on windless days, about as much use as a back pocket in a vest.

Presumably, while gazing in awe at the massive, bird-killing, wind-driven generators he was making his journey to Hull in an all-electric or hybrid car?

He must have been as he is so anxious about our diminishing oil reserves, and at the same time casts doubt on getting any oil from fracking.

There is no way oil companies would expend huge amounts of money on fracking if they weren’t 100 per cent certain there was oil to be released.

The United States, via its fracking, is now an exporter of oil rather than an importer as it was pre-fracking days.

Britain consumes about 60Gw (60000Mw) to keep the lights on. Japan has one of the largest nuclear power-stations in the world, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power plant.

If Britain built just eight such power stations there would be no need for Mr Lane’s inefficient wind-driven generators, “standing benevolently astride the landscape willow-slim and waving with the breeze”.

Build nuclear! It’s the only way.

Philip Roe, Roman Avenue South, Stamford Bridge, York.