Fourth US Wind Farm Project Blocked By Trump Allowed to Resume Construction (thehill.com)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/02/01/0821212/fourth-us-wind-farm-project-blocked-by-trump-allowed-to-resume-construction
- Source link: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5709209-fourth-wind-farm-blocked-by-trump-is-allowed-to-resume-construction/
This week it became the fourth of those wind projects allowed by a judge to resume construction, the article notes, while even the fifth project "is still awaiting court proceedings."
> Federal Judge Brian Murphy, a Biden appointee, issued a preliminary injunction blocking the administration's stop work order against Vineyard Wind... According to its website, when complete, Vineyard Wind would be able generate enough power for 400,000 homes and businesses. The project already has 44 operational wind turbines and was working on an additional 18. The Trump pause applied to the construction work that was not yet complete.
[1] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5709209-fourth-wind-farm-blocked-by-trump-is-allowed-to-resume-construction/
Why stop it now? (Score:4, Insightful)
If they already have 44 operational and were just finishing the last 18 trying to stop this without a really good cause seems like you are doing so purely for spite.
Re:Why stop it now? (Score:5, Insightful)
You're only learning now that the primary governing principle for this administration is spite?
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To be fair the OP did not claim to discover the fact right now, just that it is a case where the conclusion applies. It is useful for people who are taking notes. The decades to come will see many books to be written about this sad part of the history of the world.
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He only said "seems". He still doesn't realize.
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> He only said "seems". He still doesn't realize.
That's because I am not a partisan asshole. My gut reaction is spite but I also know that the turbine blades do mess with radar returns. You don't have to believe me, or the administration. A simple google search for "turbine blade radar" will give you a whole bunch of interesting things to read. Mitigating their interference has apparently become something of a specialty field.
Have you not considered just what all is on the coast behind those turbines? On the military side lets start with Norfolk, Vir
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> seems like [Don is] doing so purely for spite.
YES! Revengenomics is the Don Way. He said so many times, even per Covid supplies in 1st term. "But he was just joking" Fock Dat!
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Obama really did break your brain.
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He's so black, it hurts their brains.
Re:Fine, build them... (Score:4, Informative)
> ...off Martha's Vineyard, near where the Obamas and major celebrities live.
The project we're discussing is [1]Vineyard Wind [wikipedia.org]. It is an off-shore wind power project located off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vineyard_Wind
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> ...off Martha's Vineyard, near where the Obamas and major celebrities live. I'm sure they'll welcome those views, just like they welcomed the illegal aliens flown in from Texas and Florida
You know, it's subjective. I don't find anything objectionable in the appearance of wind turbines. There are a lot of them within 100km of where I live. While I can't see any from my house, it's because I'm in the city proper. And I really, genuinely wouldn't care if I could. There's nothing inherently more objectionable about a wind tower than say... a barn.
For most of the objectors, this isn't about the view. It's about the existing investments in fossil fuels. Competition bad.
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Back when my in-laws were still alive, we'd make regular trips back to eastern Washington - which involved going through the Ellensburg-Vantage stretch of Interstate 90. There are lots of wind turbines there. I remember stopping at a rest area there one particularly cold, foggy winter day. There was no noise from the interstate... all you could hear was a quiet "whoosh" from the nearby turbines, which were poking out of the fog into the blue sky. It actually was pretty awesome.
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> President Obama, was directly responsible for helping hand-craft President Autopen.
These bizarre issues don't mean anything to anyone outside of the echo chambers of partisan hacks and are often are not even factually coherent. Trueman not Obama started with the autopens.
Reminds me of the crackpot crowd currently cosplaying as public health officials who are all over bizzare HIV doesn't cause AIDs conspiracies.
> And America's first Open Border Czar. To great detriment in a country infected with denialist one-sided media. President Obama in that regard, helped create and justify President Trump.
What I find amazing is Obama deported and turned away a couple million more people in his first term than Trump did in his. He made some lefties so mad they went around calling hi
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Have you checked the name of the project?
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just because donnie two dolls has an irrational hatred of wind and solar, that doesn't mean that others do too
Re:Fine, build them... (Score:5, Funny)
Fine, build a coal plant next to mar-a-lago?
the national security card isn't so powerful... (Score:2)
...when it's so empty
America - King of Buggy Whip Manufacturing (Score:2)
It seems as though our present administration wants to revert to the 50s. Trying to block wind turbines is just another example of actively fighting against progress.
Re:America - King of Buggy Whip Manufacturing (Score:4, Insightful)
Given a lot of what they've said, done, and/or tried... I think the administration actually wants to put us back into the 1890s.
Except for Stephen Miller - he's firmly grounded in the German Reich.
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> Except for Stephen Miller - he's firmly grounded in the German Reich.
Stephen Miller is down with NDP.
Reverse Psychology? (Score:2)
If I ignore all the bullshit this yellow haired bastard spouts out, part of me might think Trump is a genius playing a fool - aka - "The Batman that Gotham needs, not the one it wants" So, his strategy is kind of a "keep your friends close, but your enemies closer" mixed with playing dumb, and letting everyone else fight it out. The entire cast of characters that make up his cabinet - the most useless and worst of the worst. Throw them a bone and keep them close. Let the angry mob chew them up in the en
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> As far as the wind/solar industries go, it's hard to see them lasting much longer assuming market players like Commonwealth and Helion get anywhere near their milestones.
I would agree wind and solar are ultimately screwed once fusion plants come online yet I would not expect to see that happening anytime soon. All these fusion companies with their endless meaningless milestones are more noise than signal.
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> As far as the wind/solar industries go, it's hard to see them lasting much longer assuming market players like Commonwealth and Helion get anywhere near their milestones.
Yeah, electricity production from nuclear fusion will be DOUBLED next year. The next year it will TRIPLE! Hell, why not increase it by a MILLION PERCENT!
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Tempting, but I don't think so.
Trump has been dumb all his life. Remember how they had to send him to a military-style college to get that degree because he simply could not hack it at a regular one despite all the help money can buy? The guy is a moron. He has always had money though and tons of it. In the US, that gets you admiration and apparently lets you get away with anything, including raping children, no matter how tiny a person you are and no matter how having money was not actually something you a
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You mistake actually understanding things for being "leftwing". Not that much a surprise, right-wingers are reliably known to be significantly dumber and significantly more disconnected from reality than the average person.
Air pollution (Score:1, Flamebait)
If Trump is so desperate for breathing polluted air he should go suck off an exhaust pipe like he did Bubba.
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I'm saving a bottle of champagne for when they finally find him dead and bloated on his golden toilet. They better bury him on the moon because there will be a never ending line of people waiting to piss on his grave.
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Like Mr. Burns.
Re: Air pollution (Score:2)
Bleah, why not a nice Aberlour 16?
Re: Air pollution (Score:2)
Um that's a Scotch
Follow the money? But crypto-loot? (Score:1)
I think that was an attempted joke, but I never did have much of a sense of humor. I sort of agree with the premise of Epstein, Epstein, and more Epstein. If only it mattered. I'm not seeing the real world effects.
However on this story I think the important question is why is the YOB so opposed to renewable energy. The answer is pretty obviously money and some bits of the money are even visible. For example, the Saudis are so fond of selling petroleum that they gladly "entrusted" a few billion to the son in
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I have no idea what a [1]yob [merriam-webster.com] is, so I wasn't sure whether to mod this one troll, insightful, or off-topic. So I ended up just picking "overrated".
Next time, define your acronyms, and stick to the topic.
> A weighty comment on Slashdot? But there is no gravity here. The moderation sucks and creates an illusion of gravity.
No problem here, this was not a weighty comment, but a random walk of a political rant.
[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yob
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Trump doesn't care about renewable energy as such.
Trump owns a golf course in Scotland. Scotland made an offshore wind farm that was visible from that golf course. Trump considered it an eyesore and Scotland didn't care about his protests.
This was a Slight. This was an Insult. Trump decided to hate windmills with a vengeance the same way he hates anyone who has ever slighted him.
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Trump's electorate cares about renewable energy - sabotaging it is for them Owning The Libs.
Trump's donors care about renewable energy - it's that pesky cheap competition they want to thwart.
Re:Follow the money? But crypto-loot? (Score:5, Insightful)
I think you don't quite get how a narcissist thinks. Selling the course would be admitting defeat which is absolutely unthinkable to someone like him. He HAS to win no matter what.
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Yep. Obviously, he is too dumb to actually win at anything except at conning his even dumber supporters.
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If he hated wind farms that bad, he would sell the course.
He's spent hundreds of millions of dollars rehabbing a course which only turned a profit seven years after purchasing it, and the profit doesn't come close to covering all the previous costs. But the real question is, [1]where did he get the money [newyorker.com] to purchase the course in cash in the first place? Then again, how else would he be able to [2]launder money [bylinesupplement.com]?
[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/swamp-chronicles/where-did-donald-trump-get-200-million-dollars-to-buy-his-money-losing-scottish-golf-club
[2] https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-missing-millions-behind-trumps
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> Trump "decided" to love Big Oil in the same way every other Democrat President has.
So, every other Democrat President has arbitrarily canceled already approved large offshore wind farm projects?
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Indeed. Such a tiny person with such a fragile ego. Somebody like that cannot do well in life, no matter how much power or possessions he accumulates. He will always be a loser. Also too dumb to understand that all he will accomplish with violence is that people just stop saying it to his face. You cannot force respect. You can only earn it. He will never be able to do that from anybody with some real insight into things.