Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they’re being built::The clock is ticking toward a deadline to meet renewable-energy standards. But USA TODAY’s analysis finds local governments banning wind turbines, solar plants.
Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they’re being built::The clock is ticking toward a deadline to meet renewable-energy standards. But USA TODAY’s analysis finds local governments banning wind turbines, solar plants.
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Republicans.
Is that those things I run into in caves in a JRPG?
No, they’re much scarier.
Evasion spammer?
Shadows. Always attack from behind to gain advantage.
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.
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. They can do both at the same time.
Farmers own land to make money, not look at it.
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.
Cry more. I don’t want the climate change to kill everyone.
Edit: also if we’re complaining about ugly, let me make a list. I’ll start at people rolling coal and end at the fat acceptance people in my fit girls porn.
The sun is gonna torch the power-grid soon, also some mother fucker is dumping CFC in to atmosphere again.
Windmill cancer.
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.
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.
no, wind is not a finite resource. it’s produced by the heating and cooling of the earth. Wind turbines aren’t doing anything to stop the sun from coming up and going down.
Seriously? What Facebook University source did you get that from?
What else exactly did he think we needed wind for anyway?
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.
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