| ▲ | carlosjobim 2 hours ago |
| Sweden and Finland have also banned offshore wind farms for national security reasons. It's not hard to understand why, if you think about it one further step than your nose. |
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| ▲ | jondea 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Could you give some sources for this? I can't seem to find anything with a cursory search, but I'd be interested in reading. |
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| ▲ | TazeTSchnitzel 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2024/11/avslag-pa... The Swedish government is not blocking all offshore wind, but it is blocking a lot of it, specifically wind parks in areas of the Baltic Sea that could cause trouble for trying to detect Russian military activities. I don't know what the situation looks like for Finland. | |
| ▲ | carlosjobim an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Firms struggle to cope with Finnish military's wind turbine ban > More than 200 wind energy projects have been canned in south-east Finland due to concerns that they could disrupt military radar. https://yle.fi/a/3-10374540 Since then the military has just become stricter. | | |
| ▲ | digitalPhonix 28 minutes ago | parent [-] | | There's a big difference between a) Finland needing fast & accurate RADAR tracking across their 50km gulf and restricting activity in the gulf as a result. Not just wind farms, other commercial activities are restricted in the Gulf of Finland including shipping. b) USA restricting wind farms on it's east coast (NC and NY/NJ) where the nearest land is thousands of km away and no other commercial activities are meaningfully restricted. (If the US can't field a RADAR for early warning off the east coast that can handle wind farms on the coast, we have other problems) |
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| ▲ | casenmgreen 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Sweden has been blocking offshore farms on the east side of country, where they would be fighting Russia. West side farms are fine. USA hardly has the same problem, and the current admin are frankly a bunch of low-brow vicious thugs, who in my view wouldn't know a genuine security problem from a large hole in the ground. |
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| ▲ | ericfr11 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Read some real news |
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| ▲ | carlosjobim an hour ago | parent [-] | | Read official decisions from the defence forces of Finland and/or Sweden. Huge offshore wind projects have been stopped recently. Or be a reality denying hacker if you prefer. | | |
| ▲ | brookst an hour ago | parent [-] | | I can’t make heads or tails of your point. Are you saying that because Sweden has to worry about Russia invading from the east, the US shouldn’t build any wind farms anywhere? That can’t be right. What do you really mean? | | |
| ▲ | carlosjobim an hour ago | parent [-] | | They don't want another surprise attack from the sea like pearl harbor. | | |
| ▲ | tempestn 40 minutes ago | parent [-] | | You're saying offshore wind farms would prevent the US from detecting an intercontinental attack crossing the ocean? |
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