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Wind power is a transitional technology that should be phased out because the turbines are “ugly,” the country’s conservative chancellor candidate, Friedrich Merz, said on Thursday evening. “I even believe that if we do things right, one day we can dismantle the wind turbines because they are ugly and because they do not fit into the landscape,” he told public broadcaster ZDF’s talk show host Maybrit Illner. “This is a transitional technology,” Merz added. Instead, the head of the Christian Democrats wants to look into testing nuclear fusion in Germany. This sector should not be left to China,…