President Donald Trump on Friday made a wild new declare about wind energy as he renewed his assaults on renewable power.
Trump complained that most of the elements utilized in wind generators are made in China, then advised that China itself doesn’t truly use wind generators.
“I’ve by no means seen a wind farm in China,” Trump declared. “Why is that? Someone examine that out.”
In actuality, China is far and away the world’s main producer of wind power, with greater than triple the present U.S. wind capability.
Trump, nevertheless, has lengthy had points with renewable power ― particularly wind, which he has referred to as “bullshit” and “a hoax,” a grudge he has held since a dispute over an offshore wind farm close to one in all his resorts.
Now, Trump may lastly get his manner as his “massive stunning invoice” will wipe out tax credit for wind and solar energy, doubtlessly decimating the business. The Rhodium Group, a analysis agency, estimates the invoice will put a cease to between 57% and 72% of recent photo voltaic and wind tasks.
North America’s Constructing Trades Unions slammed the transfer as “the most important job-killing invoice within the historical past of this nation” as these tasks are cancelled.
“Essential infrastructure tasks important to that future are being sacrificed on the altar of ideology,” the group mentioned in a press release.
New York Occasions columnist Thomas L. Friedman mentioned China is “laughing” at the US consequently, writing:
“The Chinese language merely can’t imagine their luck: that on the daybreak of the electricity-guzzling period of synthetic intelligence, the U.S. president and his social gathering have determined to interact in one of many best acts of strategic self-harm conceivable. They’ve handed a large invoice that, amongst different craziness, intentionally undermines America’s skill to generate electrical energy via renewables — photo voltaic, battery and wind energy particularly.”
Since Trump mentioned “any person examine that out” when railing towards wind energy, many individuals did precisely that ― and gave the president a fact-check:
