Letter: Power struggle

David Balfour (Letters, 30 July) asks me if I would prefer nuclear power stations in the lowlands, and nuclear fuel processing facilities in the Highlands, instead of a landscape strewn with thousands of wind turbines that wreck our tourist industry, while failing to produce enough electricity.

Well, of course I would. It would take two power stations to reliably and continuously produce all the power Scotland needs, and Caithness has had an excellent economic experience of living with such a power station, and thereafter disposing of the waste. As for locations, could I suggest the former Balado airfield, near where I live, and Middleton Moor, south of Edinburgh on the A7, for the stations and Dounreay once more for the waste disposal.

The economics and the environmental aspects of this make sense, and will actually work.

MALCOLM PARKIN

Gamekeepers Road

Kinnesswood, Kinross