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Environment & Energy

OnlinePoker

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3. Poor whales

Reply to Pluvious (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2026, 02:20 PM

10 hrs ago

A 100 MW farm would be 300 of these. Species like Humpbacks and Grey Whales don't have echolocation so they would go into these farms and smack headlong into them.

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