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Germany goes off the reservation

Sledog
Sledog Member Posts: 37,915 Standard Supporter
in Tug Tavern
Facing freezing to death makes people do shit!

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Germany-Is-Dismantling-A-Wind-Farm-To-Make-Way-For-A-Coal-Mine.html
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  • 46XiJCAB
    46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967
    I was in the beautiful CR gorge yesterday and saw multiple rigs and their pilot vehicles hauling all of the components for a windmill. Couldn't help but think about the carbon footprint left behind just to get that thing to the site. Not to mention what was required to construct that thing from beginning to end.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,239 Founders Club
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,141 Standard Supporter
    First to fall over when the atmosphere is less than perfect
    Your sensibilities are shaken by the slightest defect
    You live you life like a canary in a coalmine
    You get so dizzy even walking in a straight line

    You say you want to spend the winter in Firenza
    You're so afraid to catch a dose of influenza
    You live your life like a canary in a coalmine
    You get so dizzy even walking in a straight line

    Canary in a coalmine
    Canary in a coalmine
    Canary in a coalmine
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  • georgiaduck
    georgiaduck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 2,635 Swaye's Wigwam
    46XiJCAB said:

    I was in the beautiful CR gorge yesterday and saw multiple rigs and their pilot vehicles hauling all of the components for a windmill. Couldn't help but think about the carbon footprint left behind just to get that thing to the site. Not to mention what was required to construct that thing from beginning to end.

    Don't forget all the birds it will kill over it's lifespan.
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  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 17,674 Standard Supporter
    georgiaduck said:

    46XiJCAB said:

    I was in the beautiful CR gorge yesterday and saw multiple rigs and their pilot vehicles hauling all of the components for a windmill. Couldn't help but think about the carbon footprint left behind just to get that thing to the site. Not to mention what was required to construct that thing from beginning to end.

    Don't forget all the birds it will kill over it's lifespan.

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  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,915 Standard Supporter
    Endangered birds. They'd put you or me in prison for killing an endangered bird but killing them by the many thousands is OK if you're green!
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  • 46XiJCAB
    46XiJCAB Member Posts: 20,967
    edited October 2022
    Know of a situation with an drilling rig in ND where they found a dead duck in the pond nearby. They had to shut the rig down to investigate how the duck died. I shit you not. One Duck.
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