Борьба с ветряными мельницами

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Дональд Трамп потратил много усилий на борьбу с ветряными турбинами, которые по его мнению портят вид с его гольф-клуба в Шотландии. Для этого он послал 16 писем, одно другого дурней, бывшему первому министру Шотландии Алексу Салмонду. Он даже придумал для него обзывалку "Mad Alex".
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/letters-donald-trump-alex-salmond-wind-turbines_uk_585908ede4b0acb6e4b90a9a

Борьба оказалось тщетной, Шотландия продолжила развивать ветряные турбины в качестве основного источника возобновляемой энергии.



Трамп продолжает воевать с ветром, теперь уже в стране своего проживания. Из недавнего интервью:

MICHAEL BARBARO, political reporter: Mr. President-elect, can I press you a little further on what structures you would put in place to keep the presidency and the company separate and to avoid things that, for example, were reported in The Times in the past 24 hours about meeting with leaders of Brexit about wind farms …

TRUMP: About meeting with who?

BARBARO: Leaders of Brexit about wind farms that might interfere with the views of your golf course and how to keep, what structures, can you talk about that meeting, by the way?

TRUMP: Was I involved with the wind farms recently? Or, not that I know of. I mean, I have a problem with wind …

BARBARO: But you brought it up in the meeting, didn’t you?

TRUMP: Which meeting? I don’t know. I might have.

BARBARO: With leaders of Brexit.

MANY VOICES: With Farage.

TRUMP: Oh, I see. I might have brought it up. But not having to do with me, just I mean, the wind is a very deceiving thing. First of all, we don’t make the windmills in the United States. They’re made in Germany and Japan. They’re made out of massive amounts of steel, which goes into the atmosphere, whether it’s in our country or not, it goes into the atmosphere. The windmills kill birds and the windmills need massive subsidies. In other words, we’re subsidizing wind mills all over this country. I mean, for the most part they don’t work. I don’t think they work at all without subsidy, and that bothers me, and they kill all the birds. You go to a windmill, you know in California they have the, what is it? The golden eagle? And they’re like, if you shoot a golden eagle, they go to jail for five years and yet they kill them by, they actually have to get permits that they’re only allowed to kill 30 or something in one year. The windmills are devastating to the bird population, O.K. With that being said, there’s a place for them. But they do need subsidy. So, if I talk negatively. I’ve been saying the same thing for years about you know, the wind industry. I wouldn’t want to subsidize it. Some environmentalists agree with me very much because of all of the things I just said, including the birds, and some don’t. But it’s hard to explain. I don’t care about anything having to do with anything having to do with anything other than the country.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/trump-new-york-times-interview-transcript.html

В этом речевом салате ни одно из утверждений не соответствует действительности.
http://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/1416797/trumps-wind-power-comments-fact-checked



Трампу возможно невдомек, что выбранный им министр энергетики представляет штат, который лидирует не только в добычи нефти, но и в развитии ветряной энергии. В 2016 ветряные турбины удовлетворили почти 15% потребностей Техаса в электроэнергии - доля, которая быстро растёт с каждым годом (в 2015 было около 12%).

Texas produces about four times more wind power than 3rd place California and three times more than 2nd place Iowa. Pretty amazing for Texas, an energy juggernaut that also supplies about 28% of our natural gas and 37% of our crude oil. Texas has surged its wind power capacity 80% to 18,000 megawatts since 2010, with actual wind generation more than doubling over that time.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/judeclemente/2016/10/11/the-great-texas-wind-power-boom/