Trump’s war on windmills started in Scotland. Now he’s taking it global
Trump’s war on windmills started in Scotland. Now he’s taking it global
Trump’s war on windmills started in Scotland. Now he’s taking it global
Trump’s bitter dislike of renewable energy first erupted publicly 14 years ago in a seemingly trivial spat over wind turbines visible from his Scottish golf course. As Trump returns to Scotland this week, though, he is using the US presidency to squash clean power, with major ramifications for the climate crisis and America’s place in the world.
Although Trump failed in his legal attempt to halt the Scottish wind farm, an enduring scorn towards renewables appears to have been seeded that now has global consequences.
As president, Trump has declared wind and solar projects unwelcome in the US, barring them from federal lands and signing a vast spending bill that demolishes support for a nascent industry that held the promise of revamping the American economy while cutting dangerous planet-heating pollution.
Can we please, please stop calling turbines "windmills"? If you're milling grain, fine, but absolutely no one is installing 300m turbines to make flour.
While I agree the term "windmill" makes no sense, this is unfortunately a losing battle.
Yeah, choose your battles — don't fight windmills 😏
I bet that some where there's an electric mill that gets most of it's power from a local wind farm sometimes.
Oh, no doubt. But it's a serious capex situation for colocation.
it’s all churning in the windmills of my mind
🎶Summer breeze, makes me feel fine 🎶
Hold my beer
Dude, you want to do that, you do you. But I have a beer in hand, and this still seems like a terrible idea.