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Puntification posted:Oh absolutely but I meant that I've never seen solar panels that weren't on a roof. There are a few small farms in the SE and one fairly large one being built on the north Kent coast. The MP for faversham, who is one of the most generic Tories you can imagine, has made opposition to it her defining policy - her husband is/was CEO of a company that do "renewable biomass energy plants" (they cut down woodland for fuel) and are the primary supplier to the Pfizer plant in sandwich, which has been looking at solar for a while. If you told me she's the only MP with a blatant conflict of interest in the truss anti-solar camp I'd assume you were lying
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Raskolnikov38 posted:https://twitter.com/marrtoffee/status/1558149767124975616?s=21&t=YtMxLkb2QQM07z7xK48NKQ The article linked is from 2017
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Raskolnikov38 posted:https://twitter.com/marrtoffee/status/1558149767124975616?s=21&t=YtMxLkb2QQM07z7xK48NKQ The Donut posted:The article linked is from 2017 continuing the trend for turning up years late
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Puntification posted:Oh absolutely but I meant that I've never seen solar panels that weren't on a roof. there are a few about, you can spot them if you pan around Google maps a bit. you never see them from the ground though, they’re usually well out of the way and they’re really visually unobtrusive compared to literally any other kind of power generation.
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The Donut posted:The article linked is from 2017 
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The one group of people I do think deserve even less are journalists. (Outside realators, and landlords). So outside of skwawkbox I distrust the rest of the media. But how bad could this winter get? Crowsbeak has issued a correction as of 17:21 on Aug 13, 2022 |
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considering we're in a recession and the Tories' only answers to it are 'more Thatcherism', 'gently caress the EU', and 'pogrom the transes', I would have to say, very loving bad. an article from the Herald a couple of days ago: https://twitter.com/D_Blanchflower/status/1557340265324728320 good article overall, but here's their conclusion: The above article posted:In short, central bankers have overcooked their response to the burst in inflation which was caused by supply shocks from the pandemic followed by war in Ukraine. They raised rates and told the markets there were lots more increases coming, so financial markets tightened. (emphasis mine) as an addendum, idk if this loving barmy Sunak tweet has been posted here yet, but here it is anyway: https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1556590394170818560 (yes, Truss will do this too when she wins, that isn't the point) and here's how an author of the above article reacted: https://twitter.com/MkBlyth/status/1556673406489198592 https://twitter.com/MkBlyth/status/1556679114379108353 so basically, we're all hosed
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forkboy84 posted:I've seen solar panels on the roofs of houses but fields of them? Not so much. When I take the train to visit my mum there's a big field the train passes by that's full of solar panels. But they're well above the ground and at times I've seen cattle grazing in around them. I've been up close to wind turbines and think they're pretty cool, even knowing the rare earth elements used in their construction carries its own host of environmental and ethical problems. But the aesthetic of these almost silent futurist structures quietly generating power in the midst of a wild landscape really appeals to me.
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kecske posted:continuing the trend for turning up years late
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:I've been up close to wind turbines and think they're pretty cool, even knowing the rare earth elements used in their construction carries its own host of environmental and ethical problems. But the aesthetic of these almost silent futurist structures quietly generating power in the midst of a wild landscape really appeals to me. I've never been able to find it again but I recall a clip of an Egyptian immigrant to the UK reminiscing about his childhood in Egypt where the streets were lined with smokestacks, and they were awesome to him because they represented progress - in the UK, he feels that same sensation as an adult from wind turbines. It was quite a moving clip, the way it was put together
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yeah count me amongst people who think wind turbines are sort of cool. they do look like a clean future to me, not ugly at all. it hadn't occurred to me before that the idea they are eyesores ruining out natural environment is a germ spread from fossil fuel companies, even though it's so obvious. i thought it was just one of those things i don't understand why people care about, but now i do.
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Some wind installations are easier on the eyes than others, for sure. But that would still look like a gently caress-ugly blasted hellscape even without the wind turbines.
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i don't really know where else to post this but wanted to share anwyay. phil greaves has been permanently banned from twitter after going down tnhe antivaxxer rabbit hole
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Jose posted:i don't really know where else to post this but wanted to share anwyay. phil greaves has been permanently banned from twitter after going down tnhe antivaxxer rabbit hole Who is Phil Greaves? I googled but there are several.
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extremely prolific tedious "left wing" twitter poster responsible for lots of memes by posting stuff like this https://twitter.com/Archimbaldo/status/1558243354525290497?s=20&t=aqU-XUNH1skybVeaearyKA
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iirc the only thing he didn't consider fascist was golf courses
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Party Boat posted:iirc the only thing he didn't consider fascist was golf courses him being a golf defender is what really made me think he was a gimmick account because jesus christ lol. the communist golfer
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he's losing for many other reasons too but yes you're not wrong
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Jose posted:i don't really know where else to post this but wanted to share anwyay. phil greaves has been permanently banned from twitter after going down tnhe antivaxxer rabbit hole RIP to one of the weirdest dudes I've ever come across on any platform
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Lady Militant posted:him being a golf defender is what really made me think he was a gimmick account because jesus christ lol. the communist golfer Communism = Mini golf Monarchism = Frolf
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One weird trick to destroy the economy.
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Do MPs get to claim their energy bills? If so it's sustainable indefinitely
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Communist Thoughts posted:Do MPs get to claim their energy bills? If so it's sustainable indefinitely they've claimed 420k so far this year for it
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Maybe I'm wrong but don't MPs also use shops and restaurants. Can't do that if everything had to close because the price of leccy has shot up x10
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Have we figured out a way to blame wokism yet?
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energy bills going through the roof are making people not want to wok anymore
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Communist Thoughts posted:Have we figured out a way to blame wokism yet? Yes it goes like this: "it's wokism's fault". Easy. If you want slightly more justification than that you can start talking about how solar panel output goes down when they overheat if you like that's what my parents have been sending me from the mail
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gonadic io posted:Yes it goes like this: "it's wokism's fault". Do they also talk about wind turbines being shut down when it's too windy
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You know it. Words for word identical to when the Texas supplier had all the gas plants shut down
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