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Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

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Re: Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

#441

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There's all the same waste products being dumped into the atmosphere during the production of the entire turbine itself, it's not entirely different. And you didn't address the environmental damage to the oceans. this case is specifically greenlighting off-shore windfarms. Iif this was on land, i wouldn't care what people do with their own money and resources. But it's got serious implications for whales, of which th…

> There's all the same waste products being dumped into the atmosphere during the production of the entire turbine itself, it's not entirely different. Those are also tiny marginal percentages relative to the amount of fossil fuels that are saved, even if everything is constructed from virgin materials instead of recycled. > But it's got serious implications for whales, of which there's a decreasing amount of. It's n…

claiming something is a tiny percentage while not providing numbers is just a failed argument

you've not properly accounted for anything in support of your own argument through anything other than anecdotes and insults

given i havent provided data, ive certainly not provided insults

there's the cement to hold the turbine in place, the production of the turbine, the making of the materials that go into it, and the transportation of everything in this chain of events

even the mining of the materials has environmental impacts that aren't easily quantifiable, you've simply peaked through a door that most people can't realistically walk through

i have a hard time believing you've somehow accounted for all of these things in privileged enough manner to go around calling other people stupid

there's all sorts of environmental impacts that are simply difficult to calculate

and whales are a big topic, as the same people making the wind turbines are the ones whose overfishing are hurting the population (the chinese). should providing money for their economy via the purchase of wind turbines effect the number of whales being hunted, then what's the difference? the changing pH isn't as big a deal as people make it out to be, and it's not widely consistent across the entire ocean either, none of this is simple enough to just brush off

Re: Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

#442

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>> The legislature >Congress 53/45 R; House 219/215 R It's the Senate , not "Congress". Colloquially, "Congress" usually refers to the House of Representatives. >SCOTUS (5-4 R) > interprets the laws. Actually, it's 6-3, not 5-4. I get that you're not from or live in the US. Please understand, I'm not trying to insult or demean you. But you're making statements that are not true. I believe the term is "FTFY." And you'…

> Colloquially, "Congress" usually refers to the House of Representatives. "Congress" is the name of the whole bicameral legislature, not either one of the houses, though "Congressman" or "Congresswoman" refers to a member of the House of Representatives.

Sorry for the late reply. Reading comprehension not your strong suit?

GP said:

>> The legislature >Congress 53/45 R; House 219/215 R

I said:

>It's the Senate, not "Congress".

Re: Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

#443

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>> The legislature >Congress 53/45 R; House 219/215 R It's the Senate , not "Congress". Colloquially, "Congress" usually refers to the House of Representatives. >SCOTUS (5-4 R) > interprets the laws. Actually, it's 6-3, not 5-4. I get that you're not from or live in the US. Please understand, I'm not trying to insult or demean you. But you're making statements that are not true. I believe the term is "FTFY." And you'…

You are also wrong. Congress is both houses of the legislature. It’s the senate and the house of reps. FTFY

cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004438

Re: Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

#444

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You are also wrong. Congress is both houses of the legislature. It’s the senate and the house of reps. FTFY

cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004438

If you're going to be snarky you should try being right.

You said

> "Congress" usually refers to the House of Representatives.

Which is incorrect and what I was responding to. Reading comprehension doesn't seem to be your strong suit either eh?

Re: Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

#445

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cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004438

If you're going to be snarky you should try being right. You said > "Congress" usually refers to the House of Representatives. Which is incorrect and what I was responding to. Reading comprehension doesn't seem to be your strong suit either eh?

Who is your congressperson?

I needn't say any more, do I?

Re: Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

#446

Earlier quoted context omitted.

cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004438

If you're going to be snarky you should try being right. You said > "Congress" usually refers to the House of Representatives. Which is incorrect and what I was responding to. Reading comprehension doesn't seem to be your strong suit either eh?

I'd also add that I said:

Colloquially, "Congress" usually refers to the House of Representatives.

Colloquial (adjective):[0]

1a: used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation

Did you just not know the meaning of that word or did you intentionally decide to ignore it?

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/colloquial

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