Irene Gilbert is a 76-year-old retired state employee on a mission, fighting energy projects like large wind farms in Oregon’s rural communities. Renewable energy advocates and lawmakers treat activists like her as gadflies who should be stopped.

What those lawmakers didn’t plan for was that 50 years later, an Oregon citizen activist would use that same bureaucracy to hinder some of the very energy projects that today’s liberals want: wind farms and the new high-voltage lines needed to support them.

They didn’t plan for Irene Gilbert.

The 76-year-old retired state employee, former gun store owner and avid elk hunter from La Grande, Oregon, is on a mission to keep turbines and transmission towers from blighting the rural landscape. She has filed more challenges to energy projects — 15 in all, including lawsuits — than anyone in the state, according to Oregon’s Department of Energy.

“I kind of have a reputation,” Gilbert said.

  • marsza@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Maybe when you get out of school you’ll come back here and apologize for your ignorance.

      • marsza@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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        3 days ago

        You’re not gonna fix anything. Climate change in global fascism is going to kill any chance of your future. You should focus on weapons for the Civil Wars

        • Nightlight@lemmy.caEnglish
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          3 days ago

          Good point. I’m already looking at making a lidar guided laser anti drone weapon. I will be useful even if I can’t change the world how I want to. There will always be space for more weapons

          Edit: but also I disagree the one thing I can fix is my own ignorance. And you’re helping me do that

          • marsza@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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            3 days ago

            Ground-based drone defense can be achieved either by electronic attack, which uses radio-frequency jammers to overwhelm the drone’s control and GPS signals, or by directed energy weapons, such as high-power microwave systems that emit concentrated electromagnetic bursts to overload and destroy the drone’s onboard electronics, rendering it inoperable mid-flight.

            Creating such weapons in a compact form that be mounted on a vehicle or building or handheld 🤞 would give civilians an edge over police drones. Theoretically these devices could be made with common parts without drawing attention, or being prohibitively expensive.

            • Nightlight@lemmy.caEnglish
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              3 days ago

              I just have a thing for lidar and lasers. somebody recently made something similar for anti mosquito purposes. When I start thinking about microwave my brain goes to search and rescue applications. I bet there’s a way that we can find the vital signs of buried patients for triage reasons. i cannot wait to get to school

              Edit* ideally I’ll do it without cooking the patient. But if it comes down to you being rescued or being cooked a little bit what do you think you’ll prefer? Lidar might be a better idea for this