[robertakarobin]

Meanwhile the administration of the US says that wind farms are "losers": https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/01/09/trump-...

[timeon]

With virtually unlimited donations they are paid to say it.

[tzs]

From that article:

> “Just about all the windmills are made in China,” Trump said. “They make them and sell them to suckers like Europe and suckers like the United States before."

> “All you have to do is say to China: 'How many windmill areas do you have in China?' So far they're not able to find any," he said. "They use coal and they use oil and gas and some nuclear, not much, but they don't have windmills."

It then goes on to cite data from the US Department of Energy showing how wrong Trump is.

[embedding-shape]

Compared to solar, they are kind of noisy though. If you are used to not hearing the constant traffic "rumble" that exists almost everywhere, they add quite a lot of "rumble" themselves.

[jacquesm]

What's the closest you've lived to a windfarm?

I've lived within 500 meters of a pretty large one and the highway more than a kilometer away from where I lived was far more noisy than the turbines.

[Tade0]

One time I drove up to the very base of a ~2MW wind turbine.

Couldn't hear anything besides the road several hundred metres away.

[edent]

That isn't true. We have several turbines near us. One just across the street. Even on days without traffic noise, we can't hear them.

[Manfred]

Which is why you put them in the sea or in places with sparse population.

[robertakarobin]

Are they? I haven't noticed the sound myself, although I don't live next to windmills and just travel in areas with wind power from time to time... I also grew up next to train tracks and now live next to an interstate near an airport so may have a high tolerance for background noise!

[tensor]

Trump also said solar is bad.