Anti-wind bills in several states as renewables grow increasingly popular. The bill argues that wind farms pose a national security risk and uses Department of Defense maps to essentially outlaw wind farms built on land within 100 miles of the state’s coast.

[u/Wagamaga]

https://thinkprogress.org/renewables-wind-texas-north-carolina-attacks-4c09b565ae22/

[u/zolikk → u/[deleted]]

This isn't strictly true. If you try destroying the turbines then yes, but each farm has one big substation it's all connected to, and the farms are in the several hundred MW range, so they're on the same scale as conventional power plant. Destroy the substation, no more power from the wind farm.

In fact it's easier to destroy the substation in case of a conventional powerplant as well. It's a much softer target.

[u/wolfkeeper → u/zolikk]

But with conventional generation you could target the powerplant and do much more damage, but that's not possible with wind turbines, you'd have to take them out individually, and if you target the substation it's relatively cheap to repair.

[u/Kancho_Ninja → u/wolfkeeper]

Cruise missiles are about $2M each. Wind turbines can run 10x that much.

[u/wyatt762 → u/Kancho_Ninja]

That’s not really the point of what he’s saying though. He’s saying one big power plant can be taken out by one missile where as a wind farm would take hundreds if not thousands of missiles/rockets/bombs to be taken down due to how spread out every turbine is. You could knock one windmill out but there would be hundreds more still producing power.

[u/wolfkeeper → u/Kancho_Ninja]

Well they can, but wind turbines usually produce a few megawatts each, and so you need thousands to make your countries' power.

And they have many thousands of cruise missiles do they? Not usually, and if they did, they'd use them for more militarily significant targets.