German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the Western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

I thought renewables were cheaper than coal. How is this possible?

  • starman2112
    147·
    1 year ago

    What’s misleading? There’s coal under these turbines, they’re being dismantled to expand the coal mine, ergo they’re being torn down for coal

    • R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      54·
      1 year ago

      That is not the obvious interpretation, and the headline (and description added by OP) are deliberately written to imply something that’s not true.

      • hypelightfly@kbin.social
        32·
        1 year ago

        German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

        How is this misleading?

          • hypelightfly@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            It’s the text in-between the two.

            The text written by the OP is a rhetorical question about what I quoted, not a description. To read it you had to read the quoted text too, or decide to skip it for some reason.