Trump administration claims offshore wind poses a threat. But it won't say how.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/21/nx-s1-5678635/trump-offshore-wind-national-security-climate-change
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/21/nx-s1-5678635/trump-offshore-wind-national-security-climate-change
13 Comments
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 29 pts · 213d
It is a threat... to the coal industry's potential profits.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 213d
Nah, they know that's not gonna happen - they just wanna unload the shares they were still holding for as much as they can onto suckers who still think Trump is a financial god.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 213d
It's gonna blow BIG tsunami waves onto the shores and wash homes and roads away.
Or.. it will affect the echolocation of whales and send them off course tuning them into meat torpedoes that will slam into cruise ships and sink them!
Sarie@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 213d
Are you stupid? The real reason is that windmills will propel the US continental land into South America. That's physics 101!.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 213d
Oh God! I totally forgot about that! Yes, I'm an idiot!
Do you suppose anchors can be dropped out to sea which can stop this from happening?
Sarie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 213d
That only will slow the rate of movement. And the anchors will also damage undersea internet cables. Not a real solution. But...
If the anchors are integrated with undersea mining drills the US could make some money on the way to South America.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 213d
That may work..
reddig33@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 213d
A threat to their petroleum-infested stock portfolios maybe. But that’s about it.
Swaus01@piefed.social · 7 pts · 213d
Here are some lines that the Conservative party used in Britain:
Honestly, they couldn't even be bothered to google "good excuses for not liking wind power"?? These people are c o m p l a c e n t in their tyranny
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 213d
Truly a modern Don Quixote, but less intelligent and charming.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 213d
"LESS"?!?!? I'd say "not in the least bit," myself.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 213d
I'd love tromps stupid dialogues being edited in into the Monty Python argument sketch, and john cleese just says "No", "No it isn't" on and on.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 213d
Only handing more ammunition to the guys insisting birds aren't real