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Trump’s bitter dislike of renewable energy first erupted publicly 14 years ago in a seemingly trivial spat over wind turbines visible from his Scottish golf course. As Trump returns to Scotland this week, though, he is using the US presidency to squash clean power, with major ramifications for the climate crisis and America’s place in the world.

Although Trump failed in his legal attempt to halt the Scottish wind farm, an enduring scorn towards renewables appears to have been seeded that now has global consequences.

As president, Trump has declared wind and solar projects unwelcome in the US, barring them from federal lands and signing a vast spending bill that demolishes support for a nascent industry that held the promise of revamping the American economy while cutting dangerous planet-heating pollution.

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[-] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago

Who gives a fuck, what about Epstein?

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 54 points 1 week ago

If journalists had balls, every interview with trump would turn into the rampart AMA.

"Yeah, that's cool, but let's return to talking about Epstein..."

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

And the 24h cease fire.

And so on

[-] griff@lemmings.world 4 points 1 week ago

“the answer, my friend…”

[-] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago

Maybe trumps golf course should be located next to these weather machines?

1000029652

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's so wild. I vacationed in Northern England, about an hour south of Scotland, in Tynemouth, and our whole family found the offshore turbines to be magical.

There's ruins of like a massive 4-6 story monastery from the 15th century, and it's wild because the remnants of the one wall are the tallest thing in town, and have been for centuries. There's literally paintings and drawings going back centuries showing it, and centuries and centuries of people living in the shadow of this partial massive monument that no longer exists.

It's super interesting, but there's also something kind of inherently scary and depressing about feeling like you're seeing ancient remnants of some massive great thing that can no longer be done.

But then at a foggy sunset we saw the off shore turbines and it was genuinely uplifting and magical in a solar punk way. Just the blades peaked out of the fog, and similar to the monastery ruins, they looked too big to be created by humans, but these were actually still working. It felt like it was providing a glimpse into our future massive endeavours, and was one of the most magical moments of the whole trip.

Edit: pictures

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Grangemouth refinery recently shut down though

[-] besselj@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 week ago
[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

Don Quixote was a fool but not an asshole.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Doom Quixote.

[-] unconsequential@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

Glad I’m not the only one whose mind went straight there

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

There is a famous book about a mentally deranged man fighting windmills...

[-] chicagohuman@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago
[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Don the con the windmill fighting pedo john.

[-] unconsequential@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 week ago

Good ole Donald J. Quixote

[-] prole 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Why do people still call them "windmills"? Are they producing flour that I wasn't aware of?

They're turbines.

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 7 points 1 week ago

Windmills can do things other than grind flour. Both terms are correct.

[-] prole 4 points 1 week ago

What are energy-producing turbines milling exactly?

[-] Ebber@lemmings.world 5 points 1 week ago
[-] prole 1 points 1 week ago
[-] Klear@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Millions and millions of them!

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Around, of course!

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

It's grinding electrons into wires

[-] griff@lemmings.world 5 points 1 week ago

because the windmills of their minds are defective

[-] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

They’re milling wind

[-] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

Something, something...Don Quixote, I think.

[-] griff@lemmings.world 5 points 1 week ago

yes umm Donvicto Quixote…

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago
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