ELEANOR Harris, chief executive of the i360, was quoted in The Argus (July 22) as saying that electricity will be the only energy source used at the site.

She said that her company will be signing up to a ‘green energy’ tariff which will guarantee that the energy they use will have been produced at wind farms or hydroelectric plants.

All the electricity consumed in the UK comes into our homes through cables linked into the National Grid which, in turn, is fed from all the different types of power stations located throughout the country.

For the i360 to guarantee that theirs will not come from the Grid, but from wind farms and hydroelectric plants, they will have to connect power cables from the tower to the nearest wind and hydro facilities.

The nearest wind farm of any appreciable size is 85 miles away, off the coast of Bournemouth – quite a distance to lay a dedicated supply cable.

However, that distance pales into insignificance when matched against the location of the nearest hydro plant.

This is at Mary Tavy, in South Wales, and the cable would have to be 200 miles long.

Clearly the laying of such cables would be prohibitively expensive so, nice idea about green energy, but I can’t see it ever happening.

No green energy, which follows on from no wind turbine on top of the tower, which follows on from no harvesting rainfall, because it would be too dirty.

Things don’t seem to be quite going to plan on this project.

Eric Waters, Ingleside Crescent, Lancing