{"id":27908,"date":"2019-12-24T17:54:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T17:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=27908"},"modified":"2019-12-24T17:54:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T17:54:22","slug":"trump-attack-on-wind-turbines-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/trump-attack-on-wind-turbines-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump attack on wind turbines: What&#039;s the implication for education?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Donald Trump has caused another raucous on social media as he bluntly ascertains that he\u2019s an expert on wind turbines which he called windmills.<\/strong><br \/>\nTrump made this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/trump-environmental-reforms-denounced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">misleading<\/a> statement while, speaking to young conservatives\u00a0in West Palm Beach, Florida, close to his winter retreat at Mar-a-Lago where he is spending the holidays.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Trump: &quot;I never understood wind, you know I know windmills very much. I&#39;ve studied it better than anybody.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0U432SgNA2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0U432SgNA2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Hill (@thehill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thehill\/status\/1208881147867877377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<strong>According to Trump, he has studied it better than anybody else he knows, stating that his knowledge on wind turbines surpasses that of everybody else.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe president further stressed his point stating:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I never understood the wind. You know, I know windmills very much. They\u2019re noisy. They kill the birds. Do you want to see a bird graveyard? Go under a windmill someday. You\u2019ll see more birds than you\u2019ve ever seen in your life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The president\u2019s attack on wind is relatively not new, earlier this year\u00a0he was ridiculed\u00a0on social media for his claims that wind turbines destroyed property values and\u00a0caused cancer from their noise.<br \/>\nNotably, Trump is known for bizarre rambling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/trump-environmental-reforms-denounced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remarks<\/a> on different issues. He has previously claimed he knows more about ISIS than his generals, and also claims to understand politicians better than anybody.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Analysis of Trumps Wind turbines speech<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>An analysis of Trump\u2019s speech revealed that the president knows very little about wind turbines other than the fact that he\u2019s against it.<\/strong><br \/>\nAccording to Trump, they are made in China and Germany mostly, and very few are made in the United States. He further claims they manufacture tremendous fumes and gases are into the atmosphere.<br \/>\nHowever, a survey released<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/475701-trump-rails-against-windmills-i-never-understood-wind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> by\u00a0The Hill<\/a>, researchers from the American Wind Energy Association\u00a0contradicts Trumps claims <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awea.org\/wind-101\/benefits-of-wind\/environmental-benefits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stating that<\/a>\u00a0a typical wind project repays its carbon footprint in six months or less.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the benefits of the devices can last for\u00a0a typical lifespan of\u00a020 to 25 years,\u00a0a good investment no matter how you look at it.<br \/>\nRegarding Trump&#8217;s argument that wind turbines kill birds, it was revealed that the device <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/birds\/bird-enthusiasts\/threats-to-birds.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kills approximately 234,012 birds<\/a>\u00a0in the US every year, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service.<br \/>\nBut when compared, with collisions with glass buildings like the ones Trump himself has built, they kill 599,000,000 birds every year, 2,559 times more\u00a0birds than turbines.<\/p>\n<h2>Trump an environmentalist<\/h2>\n<p><strong>The president\u2019s final words on the subject, before hailing himself as an environmentalist presiding over an environment\u00a0in very good shape\u201d, concerned the long-term aesthetics of wind turbines.<\/strong><br \/>\nHe finally noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do you know what they don\u2019t tell you about windmills? After 10 years they look like hell. They start to get tired, old, he said, lamenting that owners of ageing windmills not replacing them without government subsidies was a really terrible thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>The implication of wind turbines on Trump&#8217;s education policies<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>A writer once commented that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2016\/11\/donald-trump-on-education\/507167\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what happens education-wise<\/a> under Donald Trump\u2019s administration is unclear.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On the campaign trail, he has said a lot about schools and students that have not been turned into policy but there&#8217;s a hint about &#8220;shuttering the U.S. Education Department entirely&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>With Republicans controlling the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives, more decision-making power is likely to be transferred back to states and local governments.<br \/>\n<strong>Trump is likely to push what he\u2019s called a \u201cmarket-driven\u201d approach to education, which should make Americans really nervous by his display of ineptitude during this particular speech about &#8220;windmills&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has caused another raucous on social media as he bluntly ascertains that he\u2019s an expert on wind turbines which he called windmills. Trump made this misleading statement while, speaking to young conservatives\u00a0in West Palm Beach, Florida, close to his winter retreat at Mar-a-Lago where he is spending the holidays. President Trump: &quot;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}