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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.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 7 months ago (15 children)

Wind mills do kill birds, but all you have to do to prevent it is paint one of the turbines black so it doesn't blend into the sky when it is turning, allowing birds to avoid them. But unfortunately thay costs money and smooth brain fossil fuel stans would rather just poison the wind rather than harness it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

The currently existing design of wind turbines is incredibly stupid anyway, I have no idea how we landed on that design. It's one of the least effective designs possible for it's use case. We should be using spiral turbines.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yooo that looks sick as hell! Why aren't we using that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Can you imagine how heavy one of those would be at full scale?

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