jeffw@lemmy.world to

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 4 months ago

Wind turbines rarely fail. So why did Vineyard Wind's fall apart?

43

Wind turbines rarely fail. So why did Vineyard Wind's fall apart?

jeffw@lemmy.world to

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 4 months ago

Tests show a manufacturing defect caused the failure of a turbine off the coast of Nantucket, a mishap that has energized opponents of renewable energy.

Chat

Nighed@feddit.uk
link
fedilink
English
arrow-up
2·
4 months ago
I was going to respond, but you did way better than I would have!

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net

climate@slrpnk.net

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !climate@slrpnk.net

Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:

Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

952 users / day
2.6K users / week
4.62K users / month
11.2K users / 6 months
2 local subscribers
5.21K subscribers
5.77K Posts
26K Comments
Modlog

mods:
silence7@slrpnk.net