If a conservative is against it:
And they don’t actually care about the criticism they levee at it. Who honestly believes they gave a fuck about the whales?
And how many animals have oil spills killed?
Also, military sonar pings.
There are valid concerns about building these in sensitive coastal ecosystems (such as kelp forests), but this is the first time I've heard someone suggest that whales could be endangered.
I don't really follow Donald Trump, but that doesn't surprise me.
I'm concerned, too, but I guess relying on fossil fuels will devastate the ecosystems even further eventually.
There are probably plenty of areas to use that aren't as sensitive.
Sure they kill whales. All whales that jump several hundred feet up in the air right into the blades.
Kill whales? What the fuck???
Chop chop chop.
Can whales jump 100 feet out of the water?
Well how else would they get chopped up by a wind turbine?
Since when did conservatives care about whales?
When they could weaponise it against people trying to make the world better.
Contrary to politicians claims
Eh? What politician would clai...
Oh, right, as you were, it's them again 😂
But it use up the wind 🤪
Like Republicans are anti-whaling anyways... 🙄
The selective outrage over animal rights is such manufactured bullshit. But if I am being honest, democrats, progressives and leftists are all equally culpable in these do nothing virtue signal outrages. If you are wearing leather, eating meat and financing animal factory farming, I don't wanna hear about your crocodile tears when an imaginary whale or a fictional dog is hurt.
Not only are these claims not true, they are made in bad faith. https://www.aaronhuertas.com/a-field-guide-to-bad-faith-arguments-7-terrible-arguments-in-your-mentions/
Only during whalenados
Last night someone was telling me that the resin they use to make the blades deteriorates over time and covers the area in microplastics. Oh and each turbine needs 40 tonnes of cement which is not carbon neutral.
They main contributors for micro plastics are polyester clothing and car tires. Those people likely use both.
Sure ok. This guy drives Australian road trains. Typically 15 axles, 58 tyres.
I just want to jump and say that that’s not a good argument. It’s next to impossible to get away from that kinda stuff, same as how saying that a person using an iPhone to write about capitalism being bad is just silly.
The absolute majority of my clothes is 100% cotton. I get jackets and stuff being synthetic, but how often if at all do you even wash them unless you're going hiking a lot of whatever? And yes, it's absolutely possible to get away from a lot of this stuff. Just like it is also complete bullshit to claim that wind turbines are major contributors for microplastics. That's literally flat Earth levels of stupid.
we gonna get you on board the fuck cars movement if microplastics are a big enough concern to not build renewable energy? Cus boy let me tell you about tire wear and microplastics.
The old “silver bullet” argument, eh? “X is not a perfect one size fits all solution with no downsides, so must be equally as bad as not doing anything”
I mean thats not really wrong but it reminds me of one of the dipshit oilfield guys I worked with in the wind industry.
"*hyuk hyuk* whats that greasing the gearbox? is that oil? in a so called green energy turbine?"
yeah dude a 2MW tower going through a few dozen gallons of lubricant a year is the same an oil fired plant burning 10,000 barrels in a year for a similar power output(napkin math explained here). You've exposed the big secret man, these things are equivalent because there are oil products in both. Numbers are a scam made up to trick god-fearing texans.
What?!? Astro turfed NIMBYism lied to me?
I'm shocked.
Do they only kill flying whales or are the others at risk of accidently jumping into the blades, too?
I think a great way to offset a windmill's presence in the ocean bed is to integrate it as an artificial reef. I wonder what other ways it could be a benefit.
Fund whale concussion research, CTE effects on whales, etc.
NOW I CAN SEE THE WHALES
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