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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: 0s | source
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Havoc ◴[27 Aug 25 11:10 UTC] No.45038005[source]▶
The sudden US pivot towards actively suppressing wind energy is absolutely wild.

There are farms that are nearing completion and now are just in limbo.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/26/business/wind-project-can...

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bluGill ◴[27 Aug 25 11:53 UTC] No.45038386[source]▶
It isn't sudden, it was always there. 15 years ago I drove from iowa to minnesota. In iowa there were wind turbines eveywhere, in mn billboards saying wind is not the answer. Today iowa des moines is 100% wind powered (i can only find press releases stating that, official numbers for the whole state are around 50%)
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RajT88 ◴[27 Aug 25 12:41 UTC] No.45038844[source]▶
I recently had a dumb argument with actually a bunch of folks on Nextdoor who claimed unironically that coal power plants were more eco friendly than wind and solar farms.

I ran the numbers like a good nerd. It is mind-bogglingly inane how wrong that idea is. I also learned new things about how ridiculously polluting coal plants are.

These bad ideas come from somewhere (presumably cable news). Or they were bots.

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Eddy_Viscosity2 ◴[27 Aug 25 13:04 UTC] No.45039103[source]▶
For coal, a good example of how bad it is, is the recommendation that pregnant women limit tuna consumption because of its mercury content.

There is no farmed tuna, its all wild caught from the big blue oceans. Why does tuna have mercury? Because it eats things that have mercury in them. Where did they get the mercury from? Rain. Where did the rain get it? Coal emissions! Coal has mercury and when you burn coal, it goes into the atmosphere and then, eventually, into the ocean. So much mercury has been released by coal burning that the ALL THE OCEANS are contaminated to the point where predator fish have levels in their flesh high enough to warrant health warnings.

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1. thijson ◴[27 Aug 25 16:17 UTC] No.45041669[source]▶
Japan had dolphin meat in their kids lunches. That didn't end well as the dolphin's are contaminated with high levels of mercury as well. I guess being right next to China, and most of their power comes from coal, and the wind generally flows from west to east did it. Some kids actually got sick from the high Mercury levels.