The northern half of Germany has been absolutely and totally vandalised with massive wind farm schemes everywhere, right across thousands of square miles of what was once beautiful scenery.

We could not believe the scale of this shocking violation, everywhere you looked there are massive industrial wind turbines.

Many of them have been built right alongside what were once gorgeous rural villages, overlooking and oppressively overpowering them.

I cannot possibly convey in words how ghastly these industrial and intimidating monstrosities have destroyed the landscape – they have to be seen to be believed. The local German people we spoke to were unanimous in their hatred of them.

They were originally told how each turbine was capable of producing large amounts of power, but were not told that they only operate at around 20 per cent of their capacity at best and consequently they watch as they rarely turn, standing useless unless the wind is at just the right speed.

They have also been dismayed at the extra costs of the small amount of electricity produced which they have to heavily pay for.

They were also not told that it takes at least 10,000 huge wind turbines to produce the equivalent of one coal powered power station, nor that there has to be a power station as back up anyway for when the turbines are standing idle which is much of the time.

They have also noticed that a small amount of people have grown very rich out of these hideous, useless things on the back of the taxpayer and that the so-called 'consultations' by the politicians were nothing more than a sham.

Does this sound very familiar?

We both had no real feelings on these things prior to seeing the destruction of what was a very beautiful country, by the size and scale of their numbers.

We will not be going back until they are, inevitably, removed, presumably when nuclear power is fully up and running. What a shocking waste of taxpayers' money.

Any ill-informed people in Northumberland who still support these things had better brace themselves for a real shock.

They will eventually hang their heads in shame if they allow the same to be done here.

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