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Energy transition: Why misinformation about wind power is widespread

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Published: October 22nd, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Protest against planned wind turbines in Frössen in eastern Thuringia, September 2022.

Misinformation about wind power is widespread. Whether you agree with it depends less on your own knowledge of the technology than on your personal worldview. This makes a fact-based discussion more difficult and undermines acceptance of the energy transition. This is the conclusion reached by a research group in a study recently published in the specialist journal „nature communications“. More than 6,000 people in the USA, the UK and Australia were interviewed in several surveys.

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Technologie Renewable energies Wind power Disinformation Energiewende Energy transition