President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he would seek to have a policy of having no wind farms constructed during his second term, threatening billions of dollars in planned wind projects.
  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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    21 hours ago

    What a fucking loser.

    Literally the cheapest energy. The fall of the American empire is truly going to be accelerated under this massive clown

  • Wigglet@beehaw.org
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    2 days ago

    His aggression towards windmills is so odd. I hope progress towards renewable energy is still able to be made

  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    Yeah, well, he can wish in one hand and shit in the other to see which fills up first. There’s multi-billion dollar projects already in progress in, among other places, California, Texas, and Wyoming. Those aren’t going to be stopped no matter what Trump wants.

  • bluGill@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    He won’t have much luck where they already exist. Farmers in iowa and kansas want to be next with one. They don’t like not getting that rent. wind turbines makes grow much better - similar to oil wells making cows grow.

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I’m not at all excited about the way our climate is going, but there’s a bit of a silver lining in Trump likely being the guy to put mar-a-largo under the mar

    • JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net
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      2 days ago

      For a long while Savonius wind turbines were popular with the DIY self-sufficiency crowd. Solar panels blew them away in terms of home power generation and lack of maintenance but they were easy to DIY and they work well in the kinds of locations where the big prop windmills don’t make sense, like bolted to roofs and to the sides of building.

      They do sell premade wind turbines ranging from ones intended for yachts to full size ones but the permies forums have a lot of neat discussions on home small wind and small hydro.

        • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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          2 days ago

          There are designs intended for installation on urban buildings, but so far, they’ve not proved to be a more cost-effective spend than rooftop solar; there are really huge economies of scale which generally mean that it makes more sense to have community ownership of one big turbine somewhere.

          • Pronell@lemmy.world
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            2 days ago

            Yeah, I have considered solar. Need to get estimates for that. Ours is an old house, and is ideally angled/situated for the sun rather than the street. The rooftop might be perfect. (Back when this house was built, it was alongside a river that has been redirected. Now the road it’s on it built on that old riverbed.)

            • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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              2 days ago

              I’d go into it with a plan for the following:

              • retrofit insulation & windows
              • replace gas heating with a heat pump
              • electrical system upgrades
              • Solar
              • storage battery
    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      This simple:

      Trump’s battle against “windmills” began back in 2006 after he had purchased seaside land for a golf course and subsequently learned that a wind farm was being planned offshore. This annoyed him because it would disturb the view and possibly eat into profits. His attempts to prevent the construction of the wind farm turned into a feud with the Scottish government, and in Trump’s mind, converted the wind turbines into giants that needed to be attacked.

      “You know, I know windmills very much. I’ve studied it better than anybody.”

      That’s it. Old man hates windmills. Nothing else to it.

      • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        20 hours ago

        We have them on many places here in Europe, and sometimes they are a very nice sight when traveling.

        They fit really well into a green landscape, but not so much in a concrete jungle.

      • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        And thought just continues to show his utter lack of taste because wind turbines are beautiful. I love driving by wind farms.

    • perestroika@slrpnk.net
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      2 days ago

      Some guesses, in declining order of probability. :)

      • Vanity and spite. After all, he’s not emotionally mature.

      • With some probability, rational attention-seeking to keep his supporters entertained and lobbyists (who bought and propagandized his way to power) satisfied. He has to deliver them goods. This is how he shows that he intends to deliver the goods… that he actually cannot deliver without changing the constitutional order very much. You can mark my words: lots of wind parks will be opened under the Trump administration, despite anything he does.

      • Maybe he wants to test the mettle of the terrible Renewable Industries Complex - an industry very prone to organizing coups and hiring assassins. If I were him, I’d consider twice, all the people in the solar business that I know have been extremely menacing. ;P

        • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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          22 hours ago

          what really cements them as abjectly evil in my mind is that they could just, you know, buy a wind turbine manufacturer, but noooooooooo instead they’ll fight to kill wind turbines because that’s 5% more profitable

          we’re not even demanding that they stop making profit, just that they make slightly less profit so as to not poison the entire planet for fuck’s sake

          • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            22 hours ago

            We’re not even demanding that they make less profitm I’m sure theres loads of profit in a diverse clean energy portfolio. I’m sure a lot of people would buy their own renewables for their home. You could sell tones of shit here. They just dont want to change. They have grown fat with greed in their thrones. Their apathy knows no bounds.