Clear off you Scary Monsters!

I think they are the ugliest blot on the landscape since pit heaps scarred the countryside horizon when coal was King back in the 50’s and 60’s – sadly an era I can still just about recall. But these modern monsters are supposed to be environmentally friendly.

I’m talking about wind farms , those vast tubular turbines being erected everywhere and with indecent haste. Just blink and yes there’s another one. Sometimes there are just clumps of two or three of these horrible ugly monsters. Increasingly, though, there are battalions of them up to fifty of them in one area and most of them over 400 feet high.

Now I may be what’s called a Senior but I’m not a grumpy old git who doesn’t embrace the future. The internet is great. Solar panels are wonderful and I rather like Jedward. But to me wind farms are a worse curse on the countryside than Mad Cow disease. Frightening to look at, they dominate and ruin the look of our once lovely countryside. And then there’s the frightening whining drone sounding like an alien with irritable bowels.

But what I want to know is why are they growing so fast and do they work?