#windturbines — Public Fediverse posts
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"Onshore wind farms could save UK £3bn a year by 2030"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #WindTurbines #Energy #Renewables
https://www.edie.net/onshore-wind-farms-could-save-uk-3bn-a-year-by-2030/
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/?p=410945 POWERCHINA Advances More Than 1.8 GW of Wind and Storage in Egypt #China #Egypt #EnergyStorage #WindTurbines
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And wow, look at the Netherlands and Denmark!
#WindTurbines #map -
And wow, look at the Netherlands and Denmark!
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And wow, look at the Netherlands and Denmark!
#WindTurbines #map -
And wow, look at the Netherlands and Denmark!
#WindTurbines #map -
And wow, look at the Netherlands and Denmark!
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MarineTraffic has lighthouses and big rocks as well as ships and boats, but I can't find the flock of wind turbines I saw from Clare last month - they should be off the coast of Galway, I think
Oh, wait, no, they're onshore, so they wouldn't be recorded.
#WindTurbines
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-9.4/centery:53.1/zoom:10 -
MarineTraffic has lighthouses and big rocks as well as ships and boats, but I can't find the flock of wind turbines I saw from Clare last month - they should be off the coast of Galway, I think
Oh, wait, no, they're onshore, so they wouldn't be recorded.
#WindTurbines
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-9.4/centery:53.1/zoom:10 -
MarineTraffic has lighthouses and big rocks as well as ships and boats, but I can't find the flock of wind turbines I saw from Clare last month - they should be off the coast of Galway, I think
Oh, wait, no, they're onshore, so they wouldn't be recorded.
#WindTurbines
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-9.4/centery:53.1/zoom:10 -
MarineTraffic has lighthouses and big rocks as well as ships and boats, but I can't find the flock of wind turbines I saw from Clare last month - they should be off the coast of Galway, I think
Oh, wait, no, they're onshore, so they wouldn't be recorded.
#WindTurbines
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-9.4/centery:53.1/zoom:10 -
MarineTraffic has lighthouses and big rocks as well as ships and boats, but I can't find the flock of wind turbines I saw from Clare last month - they should be off the coast of Galway, I think
Oh, wait, no, they're onshore, so they wouldn't be recorded.
#WindTurbines
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-9.4/centery:53.1/zoom:10 -
https://www.europesays.com/dk/158752/ Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners acquires onshore wind and battery project in Australia #Australia #AustralianRenewableEnergy #BatteryEnergyStorageSystem #CIP #Copenhagen #EnergyInfrastructure #GawaraBaya #melbourne #NorthQueensland #OnshoreWind #WindTurbines
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Over the weekend, The Sunday Times published a story about #Asbestos in #WindTurbines which has generated considerable heat online. This is not a new issue: it first surfaced in Australia in late 2025, where multiple wind farms confirmed chrysotile in brake pads from Chinese manufacturer 3S Industry, and has been actively investigated ever since. The UK discovery almost certainly results from that ongoing global audit. The story is new; the problem, and the industry response, are not. 1/8
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#Windturbines are getting so loud that some #birds are being forced to sing louder just to be heard
https://www.ecoportal.net/en/wind-turbines-are-getting-so-loud/23821
Les #éoliennes font chanter les #oiseaux plus fortIn Poland, normally quiet mornings are being broken by a strange, modern hum. In the air, birds are responding bizarrely, changing their natural behavior.
The songs are getting louder. The choruses are changing. And tunes sung for generations are disappearing.
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China is testing a megawatt airborne wind turbine that flies high above the ground to tap into stronger and more stable winds.
Instead of a massive tower, the system uses a helium-lifted platform to generate power where wind is more consistent. Developers say this could use far less material than traditional turbines and lower electricity costs once scaled.
What makes it more interesting is the use case beyond energy. The platform can be moved and deployed quickly, making it useful for disaster zones after earthquakes or floods to power lights, radios, and critical equipment.
What are your thoughts on this?
From evolving.ai IG
#solarpunk #hopepunk #eolic #wind
#windturbines #FlyingMachine
#renewables #renewableenergy
#China #emergencypreparedness
#sustainabletech #ecological
#EnergyTransition #EnergySky
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They should build wind turbines all over Mar-a-Lago. The bag of wind who lives there could generate enough electricity to power the entire east coast.
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Golden sands stretch along the Skegness coastline, where the gentle waves of the #NorthSea meet the #SandyShore under a bright blue sky. In the distance, a line of #WindTurbines rises from the horizon, adding a modern touch to the tranquil #SeasideEscape. The beach is wide and peaceful, perfect for quiet walks or enjoying the fresh sea air away from the bustle of the town. Known for its natural charm and open views, this spot offers a classic #BeachView that captures the essence of the Lincolnshire coast.
Taken Jun 2025
#ShotOniPhone #UKCountryPic #Photography #MastoGPT #BeachView #NorthSea #SandyShore #SeasideEscape #WindTurbines #CoastguardStation #AnderbyRoad #Skegness #England #UnitedKingdom
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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
#WindTurbineshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494425001033?dgcid=rss_sd_all
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Bills revive debate over #SearsIsland port plan
Maine Public | By Peter McGuire
Published March 12, 2025"Lawmakers heard more than five hours of testimony Wednesday from both sides of a debate over preserving Sears Island in the Town of #Searsport.
"A pair of bills from state representative Reagan Paul would extend a #ConservationEasement across the island and restore #SandDuneProtections in a 330-acre parcel set aside for development.
"The Winterport Republican said it's time to end decades of controversial port proposals for the island in the town of Searsport. The latest plan is a floating offshore wind port by the Maine Department of Transportation that has so far failed to attract federal funding.
"'And yet #MDOT refuses to face reality, doubling down on failure and proving this is not about offshore wind, it is about pushing #IndustrialDevelopment at any cost,' Paul told members of the legislature's Environment and Natural Resources Committee.
"Local #conservationists support the proposal and said the highest and best use of the island is as a wild area. Any commercial development, including the wind port, can be done at nearby #MackPoint, a fuel and materials terminal."
Read more:
https://www.mainepublic.org/climate/2025-03-12/bills-revive-debate-over-sears-island-port-plan
#SaveSearsIsland #ProtectNature #Maine #WindTurbines #WindPort #PenobscotBay #ProtectSearsIsland #ProtectTheForest #ProtectTheDunes #WindTerminal #SandDunes #ProtectWahsumkik #EndangeredSpecies -
Good! Build it on #MackPoint, not #SearsIsland! Feds reject Maine’s request for $456 million to build proposed wind port at Sears Island
by Stephen Singer
October 22, 2024"Rolf Olsen, vice president of the board of #FriendsOfSearsIsland, which manages a portion of the island set aside for #conservation, and an opponent of the Sears Island proposed site, said the federal decision 'would appear to be a significant financial blow' to develop the manufacturing facility.
"'We’re somewhat encouraged that the state’s port development grant application was turned down, especially since it only considered developing Sears Island and not Mack Point,' he said.
Archived version:
https://archive.md/ej9E4#SaveSearsIsland #ProtectNature #Maine #WindTurbines #WindPort #Maine #PenobscotBay #ProtectSearsIsland #ProtectTheForest #ProtectTheDunes #WindTerminal #SandDunes
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Common #Wildlife of #Wassumkeag Island (#SearsIsland)
"This is an ongoing list of the types of wildlife found on Wassumkeag (Sears) Island. It is based on reported observations. There are many other animal species on Sears Island, however, that have not been seen so are not included in this list. The list does not include most aquatic or tidal organisms. Please see our other guide for birds. New species will be added in future updates so check back.
American Mink
American Red Squirrel
American Toad
Common Garter Snake
Common Porcupine
Common Raccoon
Deer Mouse
Eastern Chipmunk
Eastern Cottontail
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Harbor Seal
Moose
Northeastern coyote
Ribbon Snake
Smooth Greensnake
Spring Peeper
Striped Skunk
White-tailed Deer
Wood Frog
Yellow-Spotted Salamander"
Source:
https://www.inaturalist.org/guides/3233"We welcome your submissions of observations! Please visit our website at http://friendsofsearsisland.org/explore-the-island/ to log observations. You may also add species to our Inaturalist Project, 'Plants and Animals of Sears Island.'"
#SaveSearsIsland #ProtectNature #WednesdaysForWildlife #Maine #WindTurbines #WindPort #PenobscotBay #ProtectSearsIsland #ProtectTheForest #ProtectTheDunes #WindTerminal #SandDunes
#ProtectWahsumkik #EndangeredSpecies #GovernorJanetMills #GreenEnergy #MackPoint -
#SearsIsland: The Answer to Green Energy, Or Home to #Biodiverse #Wildlife?
by Freyja Grey
Jul 16, 2024"The #Wabanaki people indigenous to the area named Sears Island #Wassumkeag, or Shining Beach. The tribes used the island to hunt and fish for centuries.
"McCarthy said, 'They've been documented archeologically to have had a presence here for at least thirty-five hundred years.... There's a bio-regional perspective that considers all the relations: the #insects, the #grasses, the #trees, the #eelgrass, the #birds, the critters that roam these woods — if you really want to speak for Sears Island, it's incumbent, not just for poets and photographers and old hippies, it's incumbent for all of us to be mindful of all that is happening here.'
"McCarthy said he gets why the island is an attractive place for development. 'We're in a time where wind energy is important,' he said. 'We need to find green sources of power, but the narrowness of that human perspective needs to be challenged.'
"Both McCarthy and Lawless join the group #FriendsOfSearsIsland in maintaining that #MackPoint is better situated for development.
"Even though 600 acres of the island are protected by a conservation easement, industrial disruption to the peaceful island could lead to #environmental impacts that may not be fully realized until after development, according to McCarthy."
#SaveSearsIsland #ProtectNature #WednesdaysForWildlife #Maine #WindTurbines #WindPort #Maine #PenobscotBay #ProtectSearsIsland #ProtectTheForest #ProtectTheDunes #WindTerminal #SandDunes
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#SpragueEnergy offers alternative plan for offshore #WindPort at #MackPoint
Story by Katie Delaney
June 11, 2024"The State of Maine is planning to build its first offshore wind port on Sears Island in #Searsport, but Sprague Energy is pushing for its facility at Mack Point to be reconsidered as the site for the project.
"Leaders of Sprague Energy held tours Tuesday to show people their plan for offshore wind at Mack Point which they say is a lower-impact alternative to #SearsIsland.
"'This is a technology we've been serving for 20 years; we know what we do, we know our plan is rational,' Sprague Energy Vice President of Materials Handling Jim Therriault said.
"Sprague Energy has been working on #WindTurbines for the land, but it’s ready to take them to the sea.
"Therriault said the plan will impact the land less than the Sears Island project while still preserving their current operations.
"'We came up with a plan that gives you the same, if not more, capability and we did it with greatly reduced dredging, probably about an 85 percent reduction,' Therriault said.
"Sprague would make money on the deal. It would lease 100 acres of its facility to the State of Maine. Sprague says its site would be cheaper than Sears Island.
"'That lease fee will likely be lower than the state financing fees,' Sprague Energy President and CEO Dave Glendon said."
#Maine #PenobscotBay #ProtectSearsIsland #ProtectTheForest #ProtectTheDunes #SaveSearsIsland #WindTerminal #SandDunes
#ProtectWahsumkik #Wahsumkik #EndangeredSpecies #GovernorJanetMills #Wassumkeag -
Just like when the #Maine public voted AGAINST the #CMPCorridor through the #NorthWoods!
Public feedback process for decision on #OffshoreWind port a charade, #environmentalists claim
State officials are accused of long favoring #SearsIsland, the largest undeveloped island in #PenobscotBay, as the future site of the port.
Author: Kate Cough of The Maine Monitor
Published: 12:51 PM EDT August 14, 2023PORTLAND, Maine — "Environmentalists are decrying a year-long process meant to gather public feedback on where to build a #deepwater offshore wind port, calling it a 'charade.'
"They say state officials failed to adequately engage the public or #tribal communities and effectively decided where to construct the port long before the process began.
"The Maine Department of Transportation [#MDOT]has been making an internal case for Sears Island while 'giving an illusion of an impartial analysis of port possibilities to the public,' said #MattCannon, the state conservation and energy director for #SierraClubMaine, in comments at the final meeting of the Offshore Wind Port Advisory Group.
"'Some,' he said, 'see it as a breach of public trust.'
"State officials have said they’re considering several locations for the 100-acre port, including #Eastport, #MackPoint and Sears Island, and don’t expect to choose a final location until next year. The officials insist they have not made a final decision.
"But participants in the process, which began in May 2022, say the state has long advocated for Sears Island, the largest #undeveloped island in Penobscot Bay.
"They believe officials have not seriously considered other options for the port, which would be the staging area for equipment needed to build and maintain #Windturbines in federal waters in the #GulfOfMaine.
"Those suspicions hardened after documents released via a public records request submitted by #IslesboroIslandsTrust earlier this year revealed internal discussions seeming to indicate an official preference for the island. #FriendsOfSearsIsland manages the #trails on the conserved portion of the island.
"The documents included a '#Stakeholder Management Plan' written by state-hired consultant Kay Rand. The document said the goals were, in part, to 'develop and execute a stakeholder outreach strategy that would enable #GovernorJanetMills to … announce a commitment to pursue development of Sears Island as the #RenewableEnergy Port of the Northeast.'
"The document is dated Sept. 8, 2021 — eight months before the stakeholder group held its first meeting — and mentions pursuing Sears Island as the port at least four times."
#Environment #EndangeredSpecies #ProtectSearsIsland #WindTerminal #SandDunes
#Searsport #ProtectWahsumkik #Wahsumkik
#EndangeredSpecies #ProtectTheDunes #WabanakiAlliance #Wassumkeag #CorporateColonialism
