Letter: Foolish thoughts

A FEW years ago you ran a 1 April spoof article, reporting a planning application for a wind farm on Arthur’s Seat.

An article and a letter (26 January) bring that smile back to mind, with the old saying: “Be careful what you wish for; it may come true.”

For wind farms, Craig Brown’s article tells us, were paid £14 million (in two years) by the National Grid to stand idle… and Andrew Peters writes to deplore Edinburgh Council for technically bankrupting the city by so misusing its funds and reserve for the flawed trams project that it finds itself unable to maintain or repair our roads.

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The obvious solution to the funding gap is to create an enormous wind farm on Arthur’s Seat, decouple it from the grid, sit back and wait for the National Grid to give us a couple of million quid a year for not producing electricity.

The council might even get enough to take the trams to Newhaven. Perhaps I shouldn’t even think it… just in case.

David Fiddimore

Calton Road

Edinburgh