r/environment • u/djsoomo • 1d ago

With Little Explanation, Trump Throws Wind Industry Into Chaos

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/climate/trump-wind-farms-energy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hE8.DgKE.A3YMmYpnN-RC
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u/miklayn 1d ago

Explanation?

This administration is wholly owned and controlled by Petrogarchs via The Heritage Foundation.

They're hobbling alternative energy because it threatens the power of big oil. That's the only explanation we need.

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u/RandyTheFool 23h ago

On top of that, Trump has shown his disdain for wind powered energy for years. Saying they cause cancer, they kill birds, they kill whales or something, all sorts of inane shit.

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u/Amoralvirus 20h ago

Do not underestimate the selfish pettiness of the POS-in-chief. He started publicly hating wind energy when Scotland put up ocean windmills, and ruined his precious views from his golf course. He is petty, selfish, small minded POS, who has previously admitted to holding grudges. Now he can abuse the power of the office, to act on his petty, self-serving, retribution fantasies.

Oh yeah, also a pedo, but probably not applicable here.

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u/deborah_az 1d ago

Destroying the economy one industry at a time, and allowing China to kick our asses even harder

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u/malepitt 1d ago

Petulant Emperor Remembered Something Else To Fuck With; Bribery Appointments Now Being Scheduled

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u/troaway1 1d ago

In cases like this the answer is almost always "money" or as some say "follow the money"

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/09/trump-asks-oil-executives-campaign-finance-00157131

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u/biznash 1d ago

trump is chaos. and there never is warning

it’s why idiots voted him into power. they don’t want a functioning government they want the circus

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u/irrelevantusername24 3h ago

I fucking hate this country. Him and people like him and the GOP have SABOTAGED ENTIRE GENERATIONS and made it quite literally IMPOSSIBLE to not have a miserable life. I FUCKING HATE IT AND WANT OUT

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u/sebnukem 23h ago

Explanation

Trump failed in his legal attempt to halt the wind farm visible from his Scottish golf course. It's a personal vendetta.

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u/Graffers67 1d ago

Apart from all the direct damage he's doing, he's inspiring a whole new generation of despicable politicians all over the world. The indirect damage will be enough to tip our climate over the edge.

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u/xibeno9261 16h ago

he's inspiring a whole new generation of despicable politicians all over the world.

That's why people need to de-americanize their society. Replace American movies with European ones, American TV shows with Korean ones, American AI tools with Chinese ones, and so on. Diversity is a good thing.

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u/Tokoyami8711 23h ago

Whole administration and heritage foundation are pure evil and doing nothing but fucking over the country, the people, and the whole planet. Such shallow immature self centered ghouls that are the epitome of everything wrong in humanity.

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u/TXMom2Two 23h ago

We know the reason. It’s his golf course in Scotland. He doesn’t like looking at windmills while he’s golfing there.

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u/skyfishgoo 1d ago

they could just ignore him

i would

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u/seejordan3 23h ago

He was told by rightwing entertainment they're ugly. Oh and didn't he fight them off the Ireland golf course where they were messing up his golf course view? That's it. It's golf. Fucking pathetic Republicans.

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u/CaptainBathrobe 23h ago

Wind power hurt Trump's fee-fees, just like science public health, and meteorology. It's all a giant tantrum from the world's oldest toddler.

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u/sebnukem 22h ago

His speech at a NY fundraiser in 2018 provides an explanation (just kidding):

You can blow up a pipeline, you can blow up the windmills. You know, the windmills, boom, boom, boom [mimicking windmill sound] bing [mimes shooting large gun], that’s the end of that one. If the birds don’t kill it first. The birds could kill it first. They kill so many birds. You look underneath some of those windmills, it’s like a killing field, the birds. But you know, that’s what they were going to, they were going to windmills. And you know, don’t worry about — when the wind doesn’t blow, I said, ‘What happens when the wind doesn’t blow?’ ‘Well, then we have a problem'. Okay, good.

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u/ukcycle 20h ago

Trump has a nasty bully vendetta against wind energy because he's still pissed that the Scottish ignored his complaints and went ahead with an offshore windfarm near his golf links. But I also have to wonder if this has any connection to the main developer, Orsted, being a Danish company and Denmark rejected his Greenland ambitions/threats. And furthermore, a Danish delegation recently with Newsom and have just entered into a green energy partnership with California.

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u/prawn-diver-master 1d ago

Good, wind energy is a complete waste of money and resources, not one single turbine has ever made more energy than it cost to produce it, on top of being horrible for the environment since they all end up buried in the ground because they can’t be recycled

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u/GoGoTrance 23h ago

How much energy does it take to produce a wind turbine?

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u/prawn-diver-master 22h ago

Building and maintaining turbines requires massive amounts of concrete that can’t be repurposed or used for anything else and ends up as litter buried in the earth, it requires massive amounts of steel for the support strut, and the blades are made of large amounts of un recyclable polymers and alloys that once produced can only be disposed of by burying, you need lots of rare earth materials for the power generation systems and battery storage and transfer like lithium and cobalt, which are massive environmental disasters to harvest from the earth none of these things can be repurposed and easily break down, when they do break down that then adds to the required output to break even from the rest of the farm, which they never end up producing before they’re all just detonated and buried it’s a total waste and any engineer will be happy to tell you about it, no wind turbine farm has ever produced more energy than what was required to build it, it’s always a net loss