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Verifying the credibility of claims related to the energy transition: fossil fuels, nuclear, renewable energies, batteries…
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Lacks contextWide Awake Media repeats misleading claims that wind turbines are expensive and environmentally unfriendly
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Building a single wind turbine requires a jaw-dropping quantity of energy and resources. Wind turbines are expensive, inefficient, bird-, and bat-slaying.
Source: X/Twitter, Wide Awake Media, 2025-07-18 -
MisleadingDiesel generators did not power wind farms in Scotland, nor anywhere else
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Diesel generators are powering wind turbines.
Source: X/Twitter, Social media users, 2025-06-14 -
MisleadingCan solar panels warm their surroundings? Yes, but so can other materials
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Solar panels can heat up their surroundings and have unknown consequences on the surrounding environment.
Source: Twitter/X, Social media users, 2025-04-17 -
UnsupportedNo evidence that EVs cause infertility, and their magnetic fields are similar to those from household electronics
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Electric vehicles cause infertility. Being in an electric car will lower your testosterone.
Source: YouTube, Garry Lineham, Justin Frandson, 2025-02-07 -
UnsupportedNo evidence that eroding wind turbine blades harm farmland
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Farmers have lost their crops and livelihood due to microplastics and fiberglass from eroding wind turbine blades.
Source: X/Twitter, Social media users, 2025-01-17 -
MisleadingContrary to Wide Awake Media’s misleading claims, wind turbines are greener than fossil fuels by multiple measures
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A staggering quantity of CO2 emissions are required to erect a single wind turbine. A significant proportion of retired turbine blades end up in landfill sites, unable to be recycled.
Source: X/Twitter, Wide Awake Media, 2025-01-27
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