| ▲ | rayiner 2 hours ago |
| It's even dumber than that. Someone built a wind farm near Trump's golf course in Scotland and now he hates wind farms: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15l3knp4xyo. He thinks they're ugly and noisy. |
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| ▲ | prox 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| If this is true, this is the person some folks think is fit to lead a nation. One little thing not suiting his whim of the day? Lets hate something that helps with energy production. Welcome the world of transactional opportunism. |
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| ▲ | dofm an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | This is absolutely true. He has been angrily obsessed about this for years, and since he is a malignant narcissist with an ever greater need for narcissistic supply, his irritation has been manipulated by powerful lobbyists that tell him his instincts are brilliant and correct. | |
| ▲ | 1234letshaveatw an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I'm sure you would welcome a data center in your backyard | | |
| ▲ | wizzwizz4 30 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Datacentres are a resource sink that serves private interests, not a resource source that serves public interests. | | |
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| ▲ | rayiner an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | anonreplier an hour ago | parent [-] | | Hmm does this "aesthetic" include shrinking national parks? | | |
| ▲ | ChoGGi 13 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Birds get confused when they have to much greenery, you need more land strip-mined for coal to keep them safe while migrating. |
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| ▲ | whazor 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I think wind farms on sea look really cool, especially if the turbines are huge. It gives some majestic feelings |
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| ▲ | BoxOfRain an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm not a huge fan of their aesthetic in its own right, but it beats the aesthetic of fossil fuel infrastructure any day in my view. | | |
| ▲ | rayiner an hour ago | parent [-] | | I like wind farms, but I think it's fair to observe that they're often built in nice places, whereas fossil fuel infrastructure is built in places you'd never go to voluntarily. | | |
| ▲ | stevesimmons 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Lots of fossil fuel infrastructure was built in formerly nice places that now you'd never go to voluntarily... | |
| ▲ | ben_w 32 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > whereas fossil fuel infrastructure is built in places you'd never go to voluntarily. IMO that's the consequence, not the cause, of the infrastructure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hambach_surface_mine Or sometimes the consequence of the closure of that infrastructure with no transitional plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merthyr_Tydfil The latter is absolutely worth caring about even for the greenest of green energy. Even just PV on rooftops, when a town becomes a ghost town. | |
| ▲ | acdha 35 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Drive around Southern California and you’ll see everything from oil derricks to refineries in places which would otherwise be full of housing if they weren’t so polluting. |
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| ▲ | mafuy 5 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | That's the problem. It diminishes His Majesty Trump I. |
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| ▲ | iso1631 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > He thinks they're ugly and noisy The feeling is mutual |
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| ▲ | moritzruth an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Are you saying that wind farms think you are ugly and noisy? | |
| ▲ | vincnetas an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | We don't need to "think" if they are noisy. We can measure that. So how noisy are they? | | |
| ▲ | pornel 37 minutes ago | parent [-] | | They're silent. I don't know where Trump got the idea from. Perhaps he thinks they work like fans? | | |
| ▲ | wizzwizz4 13 minutes ago | parent [-] | | They're most certainly not silent! If you're standing right under one, you can hear it over car traffic and the breeze! (Well, unless the wind is blowing really hard: then the wind might be louder than either, considering the usual minimum distance between wind turbines and roads.) Whatever will you claim is silent next? Refrigerators? Lightbulbs? |
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| ▲ | lepton 18 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Evidently this cute comment was not understood by some. @iso1631 is saying that wind farms (and by extension, their supporters) think Trump is ugly and noisy. So, they mutually think this of each other. |
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