Who the fuck does this?
Republicans.
Comment on Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built
Mango@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I wanna make energy without fucking anything up.
“Yeah no, stop that right now. It’s illegal.”
Who the fuck does this? What’s going through their head to make them think there’s any justification? How is there multiple idiots collaborating well enough to get in the way!?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Mango@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Is that those things I run into in caves in a JRPG?
VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Shadows. Always attack from behind to gain advantage.
Godric@lemmy.world 7 months ago
To explain the farmer view on wind: I don’t want Industry/ugly ass turbines right next to me.
But banning solar is the dumbing fucking shit I’ve ever heard of. Bumfuckistan, Buckfuck Nowhere, my hometown at least has solar without a complaint.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Zero farmers want to ban wind. They want to lease their land to power generation companies. They do it all the time, especially where they just graze cattle or sheep.
Farmers own land to make money, not look at it.
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I used to think this, then my sister moved out to the country. The farmers and others who live out there bitch and bitch and bitch about the windmills because they look ugly, and all blink red lights synchronously at night and it’s creepy.
I think they just don’t like change, which is why they live in the middle of nowhere. I’m also fully in favor of windmills despite hearing their frustrations, I don’t have to live out there. They’ve never bothered me when I visit though.
But for farmers who don’t graze their animals near the windmills but instead plant crops, the lease doesn’t always cover the loss of cropland apparently. Because they can’t plant within a radius of the thing.
Mango@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Cry more. I don’t want the climate change to kill everyone.
VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee 7 months ago
The sun is gonna torch the power-grid soon, also some mother fucker is dumping CFC in to atmosphere again.
Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Windmill cancer.
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I had my conservative professor uncle tell me we can’t use windmills because “they use up all the wind.”
imagine having to explain to your elders that wind isn’t some finite resource.
TheIllustrativeMan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wind is finite, and there has actually been research done to estimate the impact slower winds would have (a few degrees iirc), it’s just that this is massively offset by the pros of using wind.
GhostFence@lemmy.world 7 months ago
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 7 months ago
no, wind is not a finite resource. it’s produced by the heating a cooling of the earth. Wind turbines aren’t doing anything to stop the sun from coming up and going down.
Rinox@feddit.it 7 months ago
All that precious wind we need for top soil erosion
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What else exactly did he think we needed wind for anyway?
Madison420@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Hate to break it to you but wind is a finite resource, it’s unlikely that earths inhabitants would ever saturate it -it is still quite possible just excessively unlikely.
nutsack@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Republicans retain power by sabotage
rekabis@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Some are NIMBYs. Most, however, are alt-right reality-hostile whackadoodles who see any “renewable” energy generation as a liberal plot to destroy America.
These people actively think that renewables will harm America.
How do I know this? We have the same crazies up here in Canada. Some of them, despite having been born here, routinely confuse the two countries, spouting US legislation - like the amendments - in “defense” of their “freedoms” being “infringed upon” by things like wind turbines.
Godric@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nah man, it’s some, not most, which makes it all the more depressing. My hometown is a farm town, and some are crying and moaning about turbines, some aren’t.
The Business-minded Farmers see the green, the local Liberals see the other green, the Hicks see an eyesore, and the Yokels see da librul nrg and shit themselves because “it’s happening in their town”.
Yokels panic and lie to the hicks, hicks then get scared and hateful towards the one thing that’s not a Dollar General promising new jobs for the town in the last several decades.
VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Ooh I’m stealing “Reality-hostile” great saying. Cheers.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
It’s not just NIMBY or alt-right trolls that are against windmills. There are legitimate issues with living next to one that get discounted by people that aren’t exposed to it.
Having noise regulation on the windmills that prevents people living near from hearing them would prevent that from being an issue, but ridicule is the chosen response.
The blade causing a repetitive shadow is annoying for people and there isn’t a good solution.
Giving residents within .5-1 miles of a windmill free or reduced electricity would also probably solve 90% of the backlash. It would reduce profits though so it won’t happen.
crusa187@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
In other words, the Fox News virus continues to spread, and we all suffer for it.
Seems to be a bit of a recurring theme these days…😷