On the day when Joe Biden made history by announcing Sen. Kamala Harris as the VP pick, on the day when COVID-19 deaths in the USA hit a 10-week high, trump was babbling, nestled in the coddling arms of Hannity, and crowing about … windmills and birds.
“If you see a windmill and you hear a windmill, your home goes down by half, or less than half. It kills all the birds. The whole thing is crazy, what they want to do, and they’ll destroy the country.”
We can only suppose that trump knows his audience, who are as loony as he is. And who certainly would not know the difference between a windmill and a wind turbine.
There was no mention of COVID-19 and the deaths caused by trump and his cronies.
Kamala Harris hasn’t even started yet and trump is going cuckoo ...
Lincoln Project giving ideas to trump, since he could not come up with anything against Kamala Harris today -
Full tilt ahead for trump. Tilting at windmills means "attacking imaginary enemies", from Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote.
trump and his supporters live in a fact-free alt-universe -
We know ...
Yeah windmill cancer, that’s the ticket -
It’s starting to make non-sense -
A little dose of reality about birds and wind turbines -
A more colorful way of putting it -
From a year ago — a story on trump and his obsessive fear of and feud with windmills.
It probably got started when he unsuccessfully sued to prevent a wind farm from being built off the coast in Scotland, where he developed a luxury golf resort. Some zingers from the article —
- Windmills cause the ‘programmatic’ killing of bald eagles.
- The noise causes cancer
- It’s like a graveyard for birds
- They’re unreliable, darkening people’s homes.
- The Chinese are illegally dumping bird-killing wind turbines on our shores.
- Windmills have a warming effect on the climate.
- I know a lot about wind (I think the gaslighter meant gas).
trump hates solar energy too, but he digs coal.
Musical interlude — Gaslighter by the Chicks.
Some info on Wind Energy —
A few facts about Wind Energy in the USA -
- Across the country, wind power capacity grew 10 percent as American workers installed 9,137 megawatts (MW) of new wind projects in 2019, making it the industry’s third strongest year on record.
- The wind industry surpassed the 100 GW milestone, ending 2019 with just under 106 GW of operating wind power capacity and nearly 60,000 wind turbines. That’s enough wind capacity to power 32 million American homes.
- Wind power became the country’s largest source of renewable energy in 2019, reliably and affordably supplying 7.2 percent of the country’s electricity. In total, wind turbines generated just over 300 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2019, surpassing hydro to become the top renewable energy provider in the country.
Wind turbines for urban areas -
Also, check out the many excellent diaries on Wind energy at this site.
This nightmare will soon be over. Historians will have plenty to work with.
Let’s keep working to make it happen. Enough of this cuckoo presidency.