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17 February 2021 Much of the language of anti-renewable energy discourse occurs through visuals. It’s relatively important on social media; pictures travel much faster than words. Wind turbines, in particular, lend themselves to this style of misinformation. They’re physically significant in and of themselves. And one of the longest running visuals used to attack renewables is a picture of a helicopter spraying some unidentified fluid onto an ice-covered wind turbine. It has been around since at least 2015. It was, in fact, shared then by Liberal MP Craig Kelly, and I wrote about it back then, here at RenewEconomy. By my calculations in that post, the wind turbine cancels out the emissions from the helicopter de-icing the blades within 20 minutes (Kelly claimed it would take decades). ....
By Reuters Staff 5 Min Read Amid a deep freeze in Texas that has wreaked havoc on the U.S. energy sector, posts on social media claim to show a recent picture of “a helicopter, using fossil fuels, spraying de-icer, made with fossil fuels, to de-ice a wind turbine” in Texas. The image in question has been miscaptioned: it does not come from Texas, but rather Sweden, and it is several years old. Reuters Fact Check. REUTERS Examples of posts making this claim can be found here , here and here . As reported here by tech and science website Gizmodo, the image in the posts actually shows a helicopter doing a de-icing test on a windfarm in Uljabuouda in Arjeplog municipality, Sweden during the winter of 2014. ....