City of York Council should be congratulated for this initiative in planning for practical direct solar power (Flares please, York's bus shelters could be lit by solar power, The Press, November 2).
It is ironic for us, here in sun-soaked Australia, to read about this kind of practical local energy use of the sun in supposedly sunless England.
Australia looks like getting an expansion of the nuclear industry - nuclear power is being touted as the energy that we need.
Even when our Government planners talk about solar power, it is in terms of "the biggest solar power plant in the world". They haven't yet learned that small is beautiful.
Perhaps Australia can learn from York.
Christina Macpherson, Filbert Street, Caulfield South, Victoria, Australia.
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