Wind offers no solution to power needs

I REFER to the letter from David F Chambers (Yorkshire Post, October 28) suggesting that wind power-generated electricity could be used in the electrolysis of seawater to produce hydrogen gas for use as vehicle fuel.

While electrolysis does indeed split water into its constituent elements of hydrogen and oxygen, the electrolysis of seawater is quite different and would not result in less pollution as claimed by Mr Chambers.

Indeed, it would be just the opposite as the sodium chloride (salt) in seawater would also be split into its constituent elements of sodium and chlorine.

The sodium ions would then react with the water to produce strongly alkaline sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) and the chlorine ions would be liberated as toxic chlorine gas.

This, I suggest, would not be especially healthy for any creatures living near to, or in the sea.

From: David F Chambers, Sladeburn Drive, Northallerton.

IF I shared the politically correct view that, due to CO2 emissions and the greenhouse effect, the planet is about to catch fire, I would probably also accept that wind farms are a sensible way to ensure a supply of electricity that is both dependable and cheap.

And I would regard carbon capture and storage as a sound, essential strategy rather than a means of kicking the can a little further down the street.

Nonetheless, I must accept the fact that Renewables Obligation Certificates (ie subsidies raised from taxes) are being offered to a foreign concern to develop 10,000 new jobs in the Hull area to turn out wind turbines on the grand scale and create thousands of additional wind farms.

I’d like to think that the owners will be paid only for the electricity they produce and will bear the cost of demolition and removal of turbines when they reach the end of their useful (?) life.

Incidentally, am I wrong in thinking the EU does not allow member governments to financially assist private industry? Presumably subsidising is a different matter entirely, except that it still comes out of our pockets.

Why must we bail out euro?

From: Nick Martinek, Briarlyn Road, Huddersfield.

WHY is the UK taxpayer having to bail out the euro again, albeit via the IMF? We never wanted it, even our shifty politicians (Labour and Conservative anyway) kept us out of it.

The consequence of the UK government paying our taxes to the IMF, which then donates it (most will never be repaid) to eurozone sovereign debtors, is to destroy our own jobs, giving them to our competitors. Yet again Britain’s leaders hand over our gold to appease continental tyrants – this time the unelected EU elites.

It is worse; our money will be wasted. This bail-out, despite its increased “surveillance” will not work any more than the last two. The only real options are a careful, structured dismantling of the eurozone or full fiscal union. The EU elites, like British europhiles, are in denial, so will not dismantle the euro. But the German courts have forbidden fiscal union, and most ordinary people do not want it.

So the EU elites will build fiscal union by subterfuge – hiding it, denying it, incrementally, without democratic consent from their citizens, just like they created the EU and the eurozone.

Moreover, it seems unlikely that our Prime Minister has the fortitude to protect the UK from such machinations.

Mr Cameron continues to meekly donate our money which will support French banks, despite being directly insulted by the French President.

From: C E Kennedy, Barmby on the Marsh, East Yorkshire.

IT is noticeable that the euromaniacs’ main point in favour of the EU is that there has been no major war on the continent since 1945.

However no credit is given to Nato, nuclear weapon retaliation ability, the US and its various Presidents as well as a certain Russian leader.

From: David T Craggs, Tunstall, East Yorkshire.

QUITE frankly, I am amazed that MPs of any party are prepared to kow-tow to the bullying of whips, with threats of no promotion, no lavish trips abroad, even de-selection. Don’t these MPs have any backbone? Don’t they have any self-respect? Don’t they care about the wishes of the constituents?

From: Terry Duncan, Greame Road, Bridlington.

DID not our Prime Minister David Cameron look a forlorn and lost soul among all the other mainland European leaders in Brussels? Maybe, it is time the Conservatives found a new leader.

From: Tim Mickleburgh, Boulevard Avenue, Grimsby.

IT angers me when people think all Eurosceptics are on the right wing of the political equation. For that has never been the case, from the days when Tony Benn and Enoch Powell shared the same platform.

Indeed the recent Commons vote shows that nothing has changed in this regard, with Dennis Skinner and Austin Mitchell amongst those joining the Tory rebels in the lobbies.

So I wish Europhiles would realise that hostility to what the EU stands for cannot merely be dismissed in this fashion, even though it will complicate their simplistic and misleading arguments.

Chameleon Cameron

From: Richard Billups, East Avenue, Rawmarsh, Rotherham.

QUITE some time ago, the Yorkshire Post printed my letter which said that David Cameron was a chameleon. I got it spot on.

It has taken a while for the Conservative MPs here in Yorkshire to see that Mr Cameron makes many promises.

He is all PR. What they’ve elected is another Tony Blair but worse.