We are perfectly positioned to harvest the wind

I WAS disappointed to read the one-sided and somewhat inaccurate letter from historian Dr Colmán Etchingham (Irish Examiner letters, November 18).

The average amount of useful wind in Ireland vastly exceeds that in Germany, and in fact most of the rest of Europe, because of our lucky position right out on the edge of the western Atlantic seaboard.

We waste a colossal natural resource by letting it flow unhindered north-eastward into Europe.