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.

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.

  • BaardFigur@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    9 months ago

    Oh no! The Hill! What about the fucking rest of nature and the planet. Is that hill even high enough to still be above water in 100 years. Is it going to get eroded away by massive rainfall.

    Of course a German, from the energy stealing country Germany want Norway to produce even more energy, destroying our nature in the process. Try having every single mountain top, either having windmills, or windmills in the view. We already produce more than enough energy for ourselves. Even more energy can be produced by improving our hydro power stations. But somehow polticians insist on building windmills everywhere, and exporting it all to Germany. I suggest not being overly dependent on energy imports, and actually produce energy yourselves instead of decomissioning all of your nuclear energy plants. Be my guest, destroy all of your nature in the process, if that’s how you want to do it.

    As per dead birds: 0-60 dead birds per windmill per year (Norwegian source : https://www.nve.no/energi/energisystem/vindkraft/kunnskapsgrunnlag-om-virkninger-av-vindkraft-paa-land/fugl/)

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      101·
      9 months ago

      We already produce more than enough energy for ourselves.

      My state is also producing more than enough for ourselves. Being just as flat as Denmark (and bordering it) we send you tons of that energy to pump into hydrostorage to then export again. It’s practially all windpower.

      As to imports: if you don’t want to send us energy we’ll have to stop sending you steel and chemical products. Also Germany is a net exporter of electricity, I don’t like it either much of it is coal. Notable importer: France, with all their nuclear plants they have to shut down in the summer to not turn their rivers into bouillabaisse.

      dead birds

      Cats and buildings kill many orders of magnitude more birds than wind turbines