IT IS sad to see another council, Winchester wishing to give up farmland to put unwanted and unworkable solar panels on precious farmland.

Why? That is not the way to make electricity, it makes the land dormant, farmers having to sell up everything and change the way they live.

One must remember that the land is very precious to grow food on, and once taken away it is never there to reclaim.

What happens in times of famine when thousands of tons of food never arrives from Europe, as could happen?

Lots of farm animals sent to the slaughterhouse and no farmer’s markets. Do you want ration books again? It seems like we will have to have them again one day.

Travellers from Europe say they have never seen solar panels on farmland over there as it is not allowed, on brownfield sites, but they have on top of all the buildings where it is allowed.

One of the things you must remember is that David Attenborough said electricity cannot be stored. In this country solar panels work mainly in the summer and at best when the sun is shining. In winter the sun is weak.

Rain and snow cover solar panels, the panels do not work unless swept all the time which is time consuming.

On your travels in Europe this summer look out for fields covered in solar panels, laugh or cry you will not see them. The people have other means to gather electricity.

Countries in the North have gone over to clean coal, the Germans are building lots of clean coal power stations, plus Belgium and Holland, so is Canada.

My cousin writes to me and says in Canada because of Drax which burns wood chips, vast areas of what once was woodland with trees hundreds of years old is now vast and empty.

No new trees have been planted, they just chop them down for the sake of wood chip burning. Do you call this green!! The only people who make the profit are the men selling solar panels and wood.

Water can be used very successfully in making electricity and other sources that do not involve using farmland or trees.

Another thing is people should live in blocks of apartments, rather than tiny box houses they now build which take up more land as the population numbers rise. One must think of the future for everyone. Think about it.

There is not enough land in this country now