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.

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      9 months ago

      …but like, so do fossil fuels, you just don’t immediately see it. It’s lead to so much contamination and death you’ll never directly witness and is actively destroying everything vs “oh no, that pretty hill!”.

        • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
          91·
          9 months ago

          Well it does kill birds.

          No they don’t, birds neither like the noise or turbulence so they avoid them. Skyscrapers kill birds. This is decades-old and disproven FUD I hope you at least get money for peddling fossil fuel lobby talking points.

          And “oh no that pretty hill” will be ruined for all eternity, including future generations.

          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.

            • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
              91·
              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

        • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          Coal and nat gas also kill birds. Well basically any system that exhausts huge steam vats into the air just absolutely blast some birds.