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Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built (www.usatoday.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built::The clock is ticking toward a deadline to meet renewable-energy standards. But USA TODAY's analysis finds local governments banning wind turbines, solar plants.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I had my conservative professor uncle tell me we can't use windmills because "they use up all the wind."

imagine having to explain to your elders that wind isn't some finite resource.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

All that precious wind we need for top soil erosion

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wind is finite, and there has actually been research done to estimate the impact slower winds would have (a few degrees iirc), it's just that this is massively offset by the pros of using wind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Seriously? What Facebook University source did you get that from?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

no, wind is not a finite resource. it's produced by the heating and cooling of the earth. Wind turbines aren't doing anything to stop the sun from coming up and going down.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Hate to break it to you but wind is a finite resource, it's unlikely that earths inhabitants would ever saturate it -it is still quite possible just excessively unlikely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

What else exactly did he think we needed wind for anyway?