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Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded, now they want to silence him

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542 points xbmcuser | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 06:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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nicolailolansen ◴[27 Aug 25 08:54 UTC] No.45037035[source]▶
Anti-wind groups are oil-funded? Surprised Pikachu.
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dzhiurgis ◴[27 Aug 25 09:36 UTC] No.45037306[source]▶
Why tho? Oil money should be funding renewables so they continue making money.
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PaulKeeble ◴[27 Aug 25 10:36 UTC] No.45037778[source]▶
Shell at one point started doing that in the UK, they installed a number of offshore wind turbines. Then they sold them and doubled down on oil.

What I think is really weird in the world today is the power companies don't seem interested in selling more power. A parallel branch of Wind and Solar companies are doing all the installations and running the power but not to the extent of bringing new capacity online, its all purely for replacing the old coal and gas systems. Quite a lot of companies are having to buy their own installations and run them so they can have their new data centre.

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1. aurareturn ◴[27 Aug 25 10:44 UTC] No.45037831[source]▶

  What I think is really weird in the world today is the power companies don't seem interested in selling more power.
They do. It's just not as lucrative as oil so they sell the business and go back to oil. Say an oil company has $100 to spend on new energy. A new oil field nets them back $500 over 5 years. Wind nets them $200 over 5 years. Why would they invest in wind other than for PR?

China has to import 70% of its oil so it needs to focus on renewables. If the US doesn't produce enough oil for its own needs, it too would be building solar and wind at scale I presume. But the US is a net oil exporter.