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German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

I thought renewables were cheaper than coal. How is this possible?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This is infowars Level dumb and misleading

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What's misleading? There's coal under these turbines, they're being dismantled to expand the coal mine, ergo they're being torn down for coal

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That is not the obvious interpretation, and the headline (and description added by OP) are deliberately written to imply something that's not true.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

How is this misleading?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not the headline or the description written by the OP lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's the text in-between the two.

The text written by the OP is a rhetorical question about what I quoted, not a description. To read it you had to read the quoted text too, or decide to skip it for some reason.

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