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Environment & Energy

NNadir

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1. As if we haven't screwed up the oceans enough...

Reply to Pluvious (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2026, 12:22 PM

9 hrs ago

It's bad enough that the benthic ecosystem has been damaged by converting into and industrial park for wind turbines.

It's all an Ayn Randian wet dream, literally in this case.

We simply do not need more floating debris in our oceans, including spallated polymers from wind turbine blades, floating fragments of solar cells smashed by high seas and now this.

Isn't there enough garbage floating in the ocean already?

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Now being deployed, harnessing wave energy - "The 10x More Efficient Renewable" [View all] Pluvious 10 hrs ago OP

As if we haven't screwed up the oceans enough... NNadir 9 hrs ago #1

It looks like a promising design OKIsItJustMe 8 hrs ago #2

Poor whales OnlinePoker 7 hrs ago #3

I'd worry more about large ships with immense spinning propellor blades. OKIsItJustMe 7 hrs ago #4