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Wind Farms Are Useless, Says Duke The Duke of Edinburgh has made a fierce attack on wind farms, describing them as “absolutely useless”. The Duke's views are politically charged, as they put him at odds with the Government’s policy Jonathan Wynne-Jones 19 Nov 2011 In a withering assault on the onshore wind turbine industry, the Duke said the farms were “a disgrace”. He also criticised the industry’s reliance on subsidies from electricity customers, claimed wind farms would “never work” and accused people who support them of believing in a “fairy tale”. The Duke’s comments will be seized upon by the...

LOS ANGELES - Kristin Zimmerman went looking for a new apartment recently after someone broke into her unit in a converted Victorian house in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. She found a roomy, two-bedroom, two-bath dwelling on the edge of upscale Russian Hill, where the previous tenant had been paying $2,600 a month - more than the $1,959 a month she and her roommate were spending but still within their limit. The landlord, however, wanted $3,000 a month and wouldn't budge. "The woman was just unrelenting," said Zimmerman, 26, a cancer researcher. Apartment rents and demand are soaring...