@EU_Commission Yes, I’m nitpicking - but the speed of the rotors will certainly not be the same. Otherwise the speed at the tips of the rotors of the bigger turbines will exceed the speed of sound and that will generate a whole bunch of problems you don’t want to have.

So: Yes, a bigger rotor can generate a lot more electricity. But it will rotate slower. It must.

#WindEnergy #HeavyLifters. #RenewableEnergy #Decarbonization (#AtScale). #RenewableEnergy. @EU_Commission

@EU_Commission as someone recently removed from EU against my wishes, may I as an outsider, comment?

It seems to me that our political class is still convinced that they is a single magic bullet to all problems. We all need a combination of reduced demand, multiple renewable sources. Indeed I would argue we are still thinking in terms of centralised energy generation, with disseminated use. We need to return to the ancient sustainable system of localised generation and use.

@EU_Commission i prefer solar energy. Less visual polution

@EU_Commission I really hope that it is not too late for the European wind industry. China is moving very fast in the solar and wind energy sector.

@EU_Commission More plans, more permits, more procedures. How about letting the market breeze do the job instead?

@EU_Commission Not sure what's the main purpose here, reduction of bureaucracy (more than necessary), handing out money increasing corruption (the usual byproduct if not purpose of subsidies), or actually decarbonisation. I hope the latter at least plays a minor role because climate change is destroying the biosphere. Global (EU may be a little better) GHG emissions are rising and at all-time highs despite all promises to decarbonize.

@EU_Commission

Not ambitious enough.

@EU_Commission great!

@EU_Commission At what cost? Why is Galicia being utterly taken over, our mountains, ecosystems and landscapes ruined by this massive invasion in favour of zero generator regions, while it generates no benefit to our people and land?

@EU_Commission this is great and all, but if you're not simultaneously taxing carbon to drive down production of fossil energy, all you're doing is adding more energy to the grid, not reducing the CO₂ we're putting into the atmosphere.

@EU_Commission what about recycling?

@EU_Commission Yes, please. I like this. Please keep pushing towards increase of clean energy, decrease of dirty energy and development of #nuclear !

@EU_Commission That graphic is HORRIBLE at getting its point across! Firstly it is unclear what it tries to depict without outside information. Secondly the windmills have different heights without scaling with the numbers, thirdly, and this is likely the worst about it, you are using the areas of randomly placed circles for comparing three numbers. The area of circles is one of the least intuitive ways of doing this and it significantly undersells your progress!

Can you please stop leaving this work to untrained artists and hire someone with a background in data-visualization?!