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On windmills and warships

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

On all sides of an argument, advocates push ridiculous extremes.

Take the conservative push against windmills, which hopefully reached some kind of zenith last year when Alan Jones, appearing on on ABC’s Q&A, pulled a “swifty” on the cost of wind. After he was picked up by Melbourne PhD student Dylan McConnell in this factcheck...

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