Post #3749763

2026-07-11 23:13 UTC

If this isn't bureaucracy in France in a nutshell 😅 Sign outside of a relatively small wind farm giving chronology of the project, translated to English, it reads: 1998 - project starts 2002 - applied for a construction permit 🤞 🦗 ... 🦗 2018 - construction starts 😅 2020 - construction ends 2021 - commissioning and grid connection

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@kirk@social.coop 2026-07-11 23:27

A reminder you can literally build your own (admittedly, much smaller) wind turbine using a Piggott turbine design, by getting in contact with the Wind Empowerment network at https://windempowerment.org/ . No construction permit needed 😁

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@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange 2026-07-14 06:10

@kirk@social.coop Something else happend in that 16 year gap to massively delay the project. Funding? 🙂 This is the equivalent of a gap in your CV 😉

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@kirk@social.coop 2026-07-11 23:15

I don't know the actual history, maybe there is a good reason... but I enjoyed seeing this as someone often refreshing various french government websites to check on the status of a "depot de demande de" something or other (no construction permits, though).

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@kirk@social.coop 2026-07-11 23:19

2.3 MW turbines it seems (E-70?)

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@cian@post.lurk.org 2026-07-12 01:25

@kirk@social.coop If this was a British project, then it would have finally been cancelled in 2021 after somehow spending more than 10x what a wind farm should cost.

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