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Placing industrial wind turbines in schoolyards is hardly the brightest move, given their habit of throwing blades in all directions and collapsing without warning. They’ve also been known to throw massive chunks of ice through roofs and windows – which is what happened at a Massachusetts Community College back in 2018 – luckily no one was killed.

Back in 2013, turbines in schoolyards across the Scottish Highlands were shut down (with many quietly removed) after one of the same kind of turbine unshackled its blades and threw one of them 60m. Parents were justifiably horrified at the thought of having one of their precious darlings impaled in the name of ‘green’ energy.

A few years earlier, in 2009, a turbine at a primary school on the Isle of Skye was quietly removed after it disintegrated and threatened the lives and limbs of youngsters.

Following that trend, a few weeks…