AMAIZEING

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It's a 91m wind turbine, made of maize, as part of a maze!

Smeaton Farm is near Saltash in Cornwall. Farmer Richard Jones planted the maze on the 450-acre farm he runs with his wife and three children.

The aim, according to the BBC News website, has been to 'raise awareness of climate change and to help visitors understand how they can be more environmentally-friendly.'

Cornwall has a few windfarms. One overlooks the Tamar Lakes, a popular destination for holiday-makers, watersports enthusiasts, fishermen and walkers. The turbines, which stand just a kilometre or so from the lakes, appear to have had no negative effect whatsoever on the number of visitors to the lakes.

To me, the Smeaton Farm maze suggests that we can all stop listening to the nimby nonsense about windfarms being dangerous to health or harming one's quality of life.

They're fast becoming the icons of our times. Those who peddle the crazy stuff about them being dreadful evil killing machines are simply out of touch with reality.

They're here to stay, at least for a while, and we're going to be seeing a lot more of them. We should be celebrating them, appreciating their grandeur and the cheap, clean energy they produce - not mounting a daft campaign to keep them at least 2km away from our houses.

So let's hear it for windfarms, the astonishing, inspiring, hypnotically ethereal, environmentally-friendly power plants of the future.

We should feel privileged to be having one near us - even if some of those who already are privileged haven't seen the light yet.