Q He joined 40 of these groups. It wasn't hard. They were mostly public. They included names like Citizens for Responsible Solar, and Concerned Residents of Wirth and Winnebago Counties, Iowa, and Stop Industrial Solar Plants in Shelby County, Indiana. And Michael quickly picked up on their commonalities. So you go into some of these groups. What is the imagery you see? What is the style of posting?
A The most common type of post I saw was what I call the wind turbine on fire. Um, there's just dozens of pictures of wind turbines burning in the ocean, wind turbines burning on a farm, and so if you see these images, you would think, Wind turbines are probably incredibly dangerous. Um, all I see on my Facebook feed is a wind turbine on fire, when in fact, there was a study by the Department of Energy a couple years back, and they looked at the 40,000 wind turbines in America, and they found that less than a hundred of them had any sort of safety issue, and I think only a handful had, had caught fire. So this is an incredibly rare event that Is positioned in these Facebook groups as very common and potentially, ah, life-threatening for you if you live in that community.
AI assessment note: “The most common type of post I saw was what I call the wind turbine on fire.”