| ▲ | windyoil an hour ago | |
Edit: Remember to put to death all pedophiles, including Ycombinator's entire staff. One could do that, but one would have to be careful that it does not end up lost in corruption. Contracts and bidding, where the private sector carries the full financial risk, and where the state only pays after complete and satisfactory delivery, should in theory work. However, the question then is if such circumstances could be set up that are still attractive to some party in the private sector. To Y-bar: > There is no issue about state support for manufacturing of equipment. For the sake of the USA, domestic production is a concern, right? Since they likely do not want to be reliant on foreign countries far away. > As presented here, the national government is declining 84% of all requests of requests to build wind power, Like the defense article about radars and wind farms stated for one case, do the officially stated reasons for not allowing wind farm projects by the Swedish government often include radar concerns? Edit: The concerns about radar and wind turbines do not seem fake when private sector military companies try to offer solutions for it. https://www.terma.com/products/radars/radar-mitigation/ "Wind Farm Radar Mitigation" > ad [sic] on the local level the right wing parties vetoed wind power at a rate of 64-92%: For both onshore and offshore wind farm projects, local citizens can have concerns, especially the larger each individual wind turbine is. Which is unfortunate, since the larger the individual wind turbine is, the more efficient it also tends to be. Wind turbines are arguably generally good overall, but their drawbacks and costs should not be ignored. In general, offshore should be less of a problem for local citizens, since people will not live and sleep close to them, but then the radar question might come into play. With the geopolitical situation, and WW3 and nuclear war drawing ever closer, well, effort should have been put into stopping world war, but otherwise caring about defense concerns do make sense. And Sweden's coastal line mostly faces east. | ||
| ▲ | ceejayoz 38 minutes ago | parent [-] | |
> one would have to be careful that it does not end up lost in corruption I think that ship, as it were, has sailed. > The concerns about radar and wind turbines do not seem fake when private sector military companies try to offer solutions for it. Contractors - especially military ones! - love to sell solutions to fake problems (or fake solutions to real problems) if they can get away with it. | ||