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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    7 months ago

    I wanna make energy without fucking anything up.

    “Yeah no, stop that right now. It’s illegal.”

    Who the fuck does this? What’s going through their head to make them think there’s any justification? How is there multiple idiots collaborating well enough to get in the way!?

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      7 months ago

      Some are NIMBYs. Most, however, are alt-right reality-hostile whackadoodles who see any “renewable” energy generation as a liberal plot to destroy America.

      These people actively think that renewables will harm America.

      How do I know this? We have the same crazies up here in Canada. Some of them, despite having been born here, routinely confuse the two countries, spouting US legislation - like the constitutions and amendments - in “defense” of their “freedoms” being “infringed upon” by things like wind turbines.

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        7 months ago

        I had my conservative professor uncle tell me we can’t use windmills because “they use up all the wind.”

        imagine having to explain to your elders that wind isn’t some finite resource.