Letter: Wind energy can be easily stored

DAVE Haskell (Letters, 8 August) has clearly not heard of energy storage despite batteries being around for some time now.

Wind power does not have to be continuous and unvarying to contribute to energy needs. The energy produced can be stored when not needed, and there are a variety of ways of doing this.

Scotland has the possibility of becoming self sufficient in cheap, unpolluting renewable energy with its vast open spaces, frequent winds, plus water which can also be harnessed to provide energy. Solar could also make a useful contribution. What is there to object to about that?

One of the myths about nuclear energy generation is that it is carbon free; the fuel has a carbon cost for mining, extraction, processing and shipping, and, unlike the wind, there's no uranium in Scotland (or the UK) so it has to be imported. What was that about security of supply? It is also a finite resource and will run out eventually, unlike the wind.

Peter Simmons, Glasgow