Trump Says He Wants No Wind Turbines Built During Administration

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• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Freedom and small government, right?

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Why tho

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A billion-dollar bribe

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    • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      About fucking had it with these dragons holding us back.

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    • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      there’s also that time he whined and cried all the way to uk supreme court to try to stop a windfarm. losing once… twice… “three times a loser”.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • perestroika@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Some gusses:

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

    • With some probability, he’s seeking attention from his supporters and needs to satisfy lobbyists who bought and propagandized his way to power. 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.

    • 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 ;P ;P

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  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They cause cancer, haven’t you heard?

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    • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The gas sure does.

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• Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• Wigglet@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • taiidan@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Don Quixote…too perfect 😆

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    • DuskyHeaps@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Don Quixote, goddamn 🤣

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• PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Sure. Who needs greener,cheaper power.

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  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And jobs

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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  • normalexit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    He’ll die much sooner than facing any consequences for any of his actions

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ice melts slowly enough that it’s not likely to actually be underwater during the next four years.

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    • Suoko@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Elon Muskion didnt teach him anything about climate and co2 levels?

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• Pronell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Time to start researching if I can build my own wind turbine, I suppose…

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  • JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Free market, fuck face.

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Energy markets have never been free in that sense. It’s always been about government support.

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    • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yea thats true. Welp, guess we will have to destroy more planet earth so our corporate overlords can profit for the next four years.

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  • Steve@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You sure bout that?

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    • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No

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• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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• Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s pretty dangerous. Four years of no projects being build could kill an industry and drive away the skilled people. By the time a sane government gets established again the companies may be gone and people would be otherwise engaged, so a quick bounce back wouldn’t really be possible either.

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