Duke of Edinburgh trashes wind turbines

The Duke of Edinburgh has decided wind farms are 'absolutely useless' and a 'bad idea'.

He, like Prince Charles, has no intention of having them on his land.

The comments were made at a reception to Esbjorn Wilmar, of Infinergy, a company that makes and markets wind turbines.

The Duke is happy enough, though, that the Crown Estate pockets large amounts of cash from offshore windfarms; it owns most of the seabed around Britain.

Clearly the Duke hasn't noticed that November currently looks like September and doesn't worry overmuch about finding alternatives to fossil fuels.

But OK to add to Crown's bulging coffers as long as he can't see the offending turbines. Nice one, your Royal Highness.