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Letters to the Editor

• A meter mess

  Like Andrea Pompiii (The Argus, July 18), I had a bad experience with a parking meter (on July 8). Until I read her letter, I was prepared to put it down to a mistake with perhaps one of my pound coins failing to register. read more

• A wee story

  I read with interest your reader’s letter regarding the cleaning up of a cafe being used as a toilet. I had a similar experience when working behind the bar in a lovely pub in Brighton some years ago. One very lazy Saturday afternoon, a rather agitated man came in. read more

• My husband's valiant effort to restore fort

  I would very much like to clarify a few comments made by Adam Trimingham in an article about Newhaven Fort in The Argus on July 11. read more

• You’d have missed the Torch in Worthing if you’d blinked

  I am writing to let you know how disappointed my friends and family were at the Olympic Torch relay through Worthing and Lancing on July 16. read more

• A heritage call for Falmer

  I hope readers of The Argus may be able to help me. Falmer is opening its church and village hall as part of Heritage Open Days this September and we want to mount exhibitions based, in part, around people’s memories. You may have been married in the church (or your mother or grandmother may have been), or you may have attended the school and have memories and even photos that you can share. read more

• Some turbine truths

  It is unfortunate that there is so much opposition to the Pole-gate Wind Farm. Many mistaken assumptions are being passed as fact by objectors. One complaint that dismays me is the mistaken belief that wind turbines are inefficient because of their seemingly low-capacity factor. As a definition, capacity factor is the percentage of time over a year where the wind turbine is running at “full” rated capacity. In actual fact, the capacity factor is not too important. What matters is how much “energy” the wind produces over the year. Using capacity factor in this manner is a bit like saying your car is inefficient because it is not being driven at 110mph. The metric by which a wind farm is measured is its levellised cost of energy: capital costs, operating costs, financing costs and energy production over its entire operating life. It’s only when the wind turbine fails to produce the energy it was designed for and fails to meet availability targets that an engineer or financier would consider it to be efficient. read more

On this day: Letters to the Editor | Albion news | Local news | Comment and analysis | Crawley Town FC News | quirkies | Kemptown communitiespage | Jo Chipchase | Deaths | Congratulations | Roy Pennington | Sport | Public Notice | Society features | Olympics | Olympic 2012 blogs | Adam Trimingham