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Labour's Turbine Gambit: Energy Gains Versus Radar Riddles

Labour wants to allow 100ft wind turbines at businesses, schools, and farms without permission. This could hurt defence radar systems. Find out why.

#WindTurbines, #LabourPolicy, #DefenceRadar, #NetZero, #PlanningPermission

https://newsletter.tf/labour-100ft-wind-turbines-radar-defence-risk/

New plans could allow 100ft wind turbines at schools and farms. This is much taller than current rules for homes, which limit turbines to 15ft on buildings.

#WindTurbines, #LabourPolicy, #DefenceRadar, #NetZero, #PlanningPermission
https://newsletter.tf/labour-100ft-wind-turbines-radar-defence-risk/

Bit of a vicious circle in play, according to this.

"Recent research found cross-sectional evidence that conspiracy belief is an important predictor of wind farm opposition. The current work extends this finding and sheds light on the temporal relationship between these variables. A preregistered, three-wave study among German adults (N = 297) using Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel analyses found support for our hypothesis that an increase in conspiracy mentality (i.e., the general propensity to believe conspiracy theories) predicts more negative attitudes towards wind farms close to one's hometown four months later. We also found evidence for the opposite direction, namely that an increase in negative attitudes predicts higher conspiracy mentality four months later. Thus, conspiracy belief and wind farm opposition seem to mutually reinforce each other."

(With small N scrupulous methodological process becomes extra important-- but disagreement on that basis will need some effort, not "oh, the sample is so small!")

#ConspiracyIdeation
#EnergyModernization
#WindTurbines

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494425001033?dgcid=rss_sd_all