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Flat White

Wind energy enters its mid-life crisis

12 August 2024

2:58 PM

12 August 2024

2:58 PM

When I first heard that China was installing a two-headed wind turbine, I thought the Babylon Bee was having a laugh.

The Mingyang twin-rotor floating wind turbine platform isn’t a prank, it’s another grotesque evolution of the ‘Net Zero’ at any cost philosophy which has started creating sea monsters.

Video of OceanX being put together in Guangzhou reveals an awkward-looking creation that is supposedly able to harness typhoons when installed in deep water.

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