Comment on Biodegradable wind turbine blades, a promising improvement for lowering waste with wind energy | Just Have a Think

• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  improvement is improvement

  Yeah I don’t agree with that. It’s a complete distraction and irrelevant, it adds confusion to a ley audience by implying this was something that needed addressing.

  We’ve got some real problems; a preponderance of windmill blades sounds like a made up rw talking point: responding to or producing articles like this offers a validation that the counterfactual doesn’t warrant.

  It is actually problematic to spend time, effort, and other people’s attention and understanding making weird defensive claims to non issues.

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  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think you’re right that the blade problem is mostly used in the context of right-wingers trying to tarnish and muddy Wind’s image, but I don’t see it as particularly negative for media to be made that highlights the fact that they could eventually become biodegradable. IMO it puts a cap on any right-wing jab by having an easily linkable response that effectively says “Well, that claim will soon be moot anyway.” And it can again be emphasized that in proportion, it’s not a problem to begin with.

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The problem is that it validates the claim to offer a “solution” (it isn’t) to the “problem” (it isn’t). It’s counter productive to validate the claim by offering this retort.

      I’d be more than happy with seeing these things repurposed into something useful. If we’re in a position where windmill blades are littering the landscape because we have a preponderance of cheap/ free/ non polluting energy, that’s a good thing.

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      • YungOnions@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Assuming this is a non-issue like you say, I still don’t see why that makes this a problem?

        It is actually problematic to spend time, effort, and other people’s attention and understanding making weird defensive claims to non issues.

        Why? This makes it seem like we can only concentrate on one issue at a time and that by making biodegradable blades we’re somehow stopping something more ‘worthwhile’ from happening? We can do multiple things at once. Even if this makes only a minor difference, I still don’t see why that’s a bad thing? Surely any attempt to improve things is a good thing, no?

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