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Trump gets wrong country, wrong bird in windmill rant



Washington, United States (AFP) Dec 31, 2025
US President Donald Trump has blamed wind turbines for killing iconic American bald eagles in a year's end social media post that hit on one of his pet peeves. There were two problems with this latest lament: the picture in his Truth Social post on Tuesday was taken years ago in Israel, and it's not a bald eagle. AFP reviewed the post, where Trump shared a zoomed-in image of a bird on rocky ground beneath a wind turbine, writing: "Windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles!" The ... read more

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S.Africa seeks to save birds from wind turbine risks
Swellendam, South Africa (AFP) Oct 23, 2025
Powerful gusts shook an observation post perched on a hill at a wind farm in South Africa as two monitors scanned the landscape through binoculars. ... more
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Vertical wind turbines may soon power UK railways using tunnel airflow
London, UK (SPX) Oct 23, 2025
Engineers at The University of Manchester are breaking new ground with technology that could transform train tunnels into renewable power stations. Their research focuses on capturing powerful winds ... more
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Danish wind giant Orsted to cut workforce by a quarter
Copenhagen (AFP) Oct 9, 2025
Danish offshore wind energy giant Orsted announced Thursday plans to cut 2,000 jobs, or a quarter of its workforce, by 2027 as its business struggles in the United States. ... more
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French-German duo wins mega offshore wind energy project
Paris (AFP) Sept 24, 2025
French energy multinational TotalEnergies and German energy group RWE have won a contract to built a large offshore wind energy project with a potential to supply the equivalent of one million households with electricity, the French government said Wednesday. ... more
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Wind giant Orsted to resume US project after court win
Copenhagen (AFP) Sept 23, 2025
Shares in Danish wind giant Orsted bounced Tuesday after a US court allowed it to resume work on a project that had been blocked by officials. ... more
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Floating wind power sets sail in Japan's energy shift
Goto, Japan (AFP) Sept 21, 2025
Close to a small fishing port in southwestern Japan, the slim white turbines of the country's first commercial-scale floating wind farm glimmer offshore, months before a key project in Tokyo's green-energy strategy begins. ... more
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Transportation Department wind farm funding cuts to save $679M
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 29, 2025
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Friday it is cutting approximately $679 million in funding to 12 wind farms, calling the projects "wasteful." ... more
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Japan confident on wind power after Mitsubishi blow
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 28, 2025
Japan remains optimistic about the adoption of renewable energy despite Mitsubishi pulling out of three big offshore wind projects, the government said Thursday. Blaming high costs, Mitsubis ... more

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Japan's Mitsubishi pulls out of key wind power projects
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 27, 2025
Japan's Mitsubishi is withdrawing from three wind power projects deemed no longer profitable, the company said on Wednesday, a setback for a renewable energy source the country considers its "tr ... more
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'Let's go fly a kite': Capturing wind for clean energy in Ireland
Bangor, Ireland (AFP) Aug 7, 2025
On Ireland's blustery western seaboard researchers are gleefully flying giant kites - not for fun but in the hope of generating renewable electricity and sparking a "revolution" in wind energy. ... more
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Germany, wind power groups seek to cut China reliance
Frankfurt, Germany (AFP) Aug 5, 2025
Germany presented a plan Tuesday drawn up with European wind power groups to reduce dependence on China for components made from rare earths, after export curbs on the materials sparked tensions. ... more
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Drone swarm explores turbulent airflows near wind turbines
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 14, 2025
A fleet of ten lightweight drones from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has completed a series of coordinated flights to investigate the airflow immediately around wind turbines-an area typically i ... more
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Dogs on the trail of South Africa's endangered tortoises
Boland, Afrique Du Sud (AFP) July 10, 2025
Snout pressed to the ground, a border collie named Delta zigzagged through the shrubs on a private nature reserve near Cape Town, frantically sniffing for critically endangered tortoises. ... more
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