Trump’s bitter dislike of renewable energy first erupted publicly 14 years ago in a seemingly trivial spat over wind turbines visible from his Scottish golf course. As Trump returns to Scotland this week, though, he is using the US presidency to squash clean power, with major ramifications for the climate crisis and America’s place in the world.
Although Trump failed in his legal attempt to halt the Scottish wind farm, an enduring scorn towards renewables appears to have been seeded that now has global consequences.
As president, Trump has declared wind and solar projects unwelcome in the US, barring them from federal lands and signing a vast spending bill that demolishes support for a nascent industry that held the promise of revamping the American economy while cutting dangerous planet-heating pollution.
There is a famous book about a mentally deranged man fighting windmills…
I think his name was Don
Don the con the windmill fighting pedo john.
Why do people still call them “windmills”? Are they producing flour that I wasn’t aware of?
They’re turbines.
It’s grinding electrons into wires
because the windmills of their minds are defective
Windmills can do things other than grind flour. Both terms are correct.
What are energy-producing turbines milling exactly?
Electrons
🤔
Millions and millions of them!
Around, of course!
They’re milling wind
Who gives a fuck, what about Epstein?
If journalists had balls, every interview with trump would turn into the rampart AMA.
“Yeah, that’s cool, but let’s return to talking about Epstein…”
And the 24h cease fire.
And so on
“the answer, my friend…”
Maybe trumps golf course should be located next to these weather machines?
It’s so wild. I vacationed in Northern England, about an hour south of Scotland, in Tynemouth, and our whole family found the offshore turbines to be magical.
There’s ruins of like a massive 4-6 story monastery from the 15th century, and it’s wild because the remnants of the one wall are the tallest thing in town, and have been for centuries. There’s literally paintings and drawings going back centuries showing it, and centuries and centuries of people living in the shadow of this partial massive monument that no longer exists.
It’s super interesting, but there’s also something kind of inherently scary and depressing about feeling like you’re seeing ancient remnants of some massive great thing that can no longer be done.
But then at a foggy sunset we saw the off shore turbines and it was genuinely uplifting and magical in a solar punk way. Just the blades peaked out of the fog, and similar to the monastery ruins, they looked too big to be created by humans, but these were actually still working. It felt like it was providing a glimpse into our future massive endeavours, and was one of the most magical moments of the whole trip.
Edit: pictures
Grangemouth refinery recently shut down though
A modern day Don Quixote
Don Quixote was a fool but not an asshole.
Doom Quixote.
Glad I’m not the only one whose mind went straight there
Good ole Donald J. Quixote
Something, something…Don Quixote, I think.
yes umm Donvicto Quixote…
Donald J. Quixote over here battling windmills imagining them as giants.
Grab your Lance you dumb turd. The final boss is coming:
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/germany-captures-biggest-wind-project/17990/
