Trump said wind power is for ‘stupid people.’ Five days later, European countries agreed to build one of the planet’s biggest wind farms in the North Sea

The fossil fuel industry wants to continue to make profits

and because renewables just don't give the same guaranteed profit level as fossil fuels.

Returns on investments in fossil fuels typically range between 10-20 percent, while for a renewables project, 5-8 percent is the norm, Reuters reported in June 2023.

No, I don't believe this had anything at all to do with trump's personal hatred for wind. Why? Your argument makes sense, and that jackass is dumber than a pile of shit.

This, unfortunately, is not just a rich people thing. Normal people opposes wind mills all the time because of the view. Source: I’m from Denmark and many wind mill projects never startes because of this.

He just needs to finance a big ad campaign and most of Norway will be on board with almost anything. There are "traditions" here based on ad campaigns, it would be funny if it wouldn't be so stupid

One has to see that in proportion. Oceans that are several degrees warmer due to greenhouse emissions would for sure mean a sixth mass extinction of life on Earth.

That’s a much reduced statement. Construction noise is indeed a massive disturbance, which is why there’s a lot of efforts on mitigation it. Once the plant is running, however, it has been observed to work as an artificial reef increasing the local populations. To increase the effect there’s some work on adding boulders in between the monopiles. Another reason is that power boats are (depends on country) often forbidden to enter which actually reduces the noise disturbance within the area. There’s also effects on some species (lower trophic levels) due to the local reduction in wind speed in the wake which modifies the amount of mixing in the surface. That is, however, an active field of research. Long story short: fields of wind power plants are depending on the current life stage a disturbance but have in some sites been observed to be the opposite once operating. A conclusion to only build them on land could hardly be drawn at this time.

There is a lot of acoustic mitigation in place nowadays when using monopiles. And the easy locations are taken, so other foundation types (jacket platforms, floating wind turbines) are also in play. Grand generalizations like "we should build them on land only" sort of fall apart in the real world.

Wind power on see has vastly better energy reliability.

What do you prefer instead? Burning biomass, heavy use of mining for massively larger battery facilities, very destructive water reservoires with pumping stations, building large overcapacities of wind power on land, or even burning fossile fuels? Some other option?

Please tell us your choice.

It would be more suitable to his skill level...

There are some indirekt, but significant points.

• EVs can use electricity to make fuels redundant
• Electricity can be used to create artificial fuels, which can be used for regular vehicles
• Regarding the transportation market, fossil fuels and electricity are in direkt competition for the cash of the consumers. For years, fossil fuel prices could climb as much as they like - there was hardly any alternative. Today however, FF can only get more expensive until people start switching to EVs. More EVs = more market pressure on FF prices due to reduced demand.
• Less exposure to geopolitical crises. FF prices react strongly to wars, production cuts, international tensions, etc. An energy system with a high share of renewable energy is more resilient. It reduces the risk of extreme energy price shocks, which often also drive up fuel prices.

If you need less oil to produce electricity...

where is the wind turbine and tidal energy generator ??

I wonder if you could make a grid in 3 dimensions that could harvest energy as the nodes change position relative to each other, almost like a piezoelectric system on a macro scale edit: i'm kinda stoned so the ideas are flowing freely lol

Yeah, things usually turn out that way. It seems like it a good idea but id bet the efficiency would be low enough that it would be better to just have separate machines. Maybe if you scale it up enough it would be worthwhile