Sir – CPRE’s Michael Tyce (Letters, April 7) describes wind turbines as monsters that would blight Oxford.

How would he describe the huge electricity pylons that stride across the landscape? The mammoth shapes of the Didcot cooling towers? Isn’t it odd that no one objects to these?

Actually many people are delighted when they see the tall, elegant windmills near Coleshill. It’s a matter of taste, perhaps.

We wax lyrical over old windmills, but perhaps there were Michael Tyces vituperating against them when they first appeared. It is odd that the only source of renewal energy that most people know about is the wind turbines. Nuclear power stations, which really are ugly, as well as deadly dangerous, are supposed to reduce carbon emissions too.

But there are plenty of others which could and should be developed: geo-thermal, hydro (what about all the streams culverted under our hillside roads?) and solar.

I believe West Oxford Community Centre on Botley Road is self-sufficient for energy, thanks to solar panels.

Irene Gill, Oxford