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.

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.

  • @jpreston2005English
    15•1 year 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.

    • @TheIllustrativeManEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Wind is finite, and there has actually been research done to estimate the impact slower winds would have (a few degrees iirc), it’s just that this is massively offset by the pros of using wind.

      • @jpreston2005English
        1•1 year ago

        no, wind is not a finite resource. it’s produced by the heating and cooling of the earth. Wind turbines aren’t doing anything to stop the sun from coming up and going down.

    • Flying SquidEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      What else exactly did he think we needed wind for anyway?

    • @Madison420English
      0•1 year ago

      Hate to break it to you but wind is a finite resource, it’s unlikely that earths inhabitants would ever saturate it -it is still quite possible just excessively unlikely.