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NNadir

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7. Good Grief! Even the generally antinuke NRDC has concerns about wind energy development in Texas.

Wed Aug 27, 2025, 11:54 AM

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Life in the Chihuahuan Desert Grasslands

Projected growth in oil, gas and wind energy production could further degrade the vital environmental services provided by this region, particularly as a nature-based solution for soil carbon storage. Grasslands store 10-30 percent of the world's soil carbon, compared to grasslands converted to intensive agriculture that release this greenhouse gas from the soil, increasing air pollution and accelerating climate change. Despite its scarcity, water is increasingly overexploited from aquifers as grasslands become intensive cultivation fields.

And let's be clear about something, OK? Without development of gas and oil "resources" (also mentioned by the antinuke NRDC) the wind industry is useless.

I mean, it's a desert, "it doesn't rain." A dust bowl, right?

OK to tear it up!!!!

The migratory path of the highly endangered whooping crane passes uncomfortably, at least to my mind, close to the Texas panhandle, not that antinuke apologists for the wind industry give a shit about whooping crane any more than they give a shit about any other species.

They'd rather carry on in opposition to nuclear energy, which is and always has been the subject of their call for the industrialization of wilderness, as stated in the OP.

QED, here in this conversation.

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Wow! We're saved! The British have introduced recyclable wind turbine blades!!! I learned about it right here at DU. [View all] NNadir Wednesday OP

Thanks for the laugh! -misanthroptimist Wednesday #1

Interesting about the recyclable turbine blades, especially since we have lovely wind farms here txwhitedove Wednesday #2

Well, you got your wish didn't you? Nuclear energy didn't save you although what you call "bare land..." NNadir Wednesday #3

West Texas is a a lot of relatively flat bare ass land. Definitely not a wilderness. I was glad to see txwhitedove Wednesday #4

I stand by my definition while recognizing that antinukes reject it. I'm what one calls, an "environmentalist" of... NNadir Wednesday #5

Good grief. The tragedy was MAN who stripped the native buffalo grass to plant wheat and txwhitedove Wednesday #6

Good Grief! Even the generally antinuke NRDC has concerns about wind energy development in Texas. NNadir Wednesday #7

Now we can pretend to recycle wind turbines just as we pretend to recycle plastic packaging. hunter Wednesday #8

Sounds like a plan. The label will make everyone feel real "green" I'm sure. NNadir Wednesday #9