250 Wind Farms Blocked. 15 Million Homes Worth of Energy. The Pentagon Calls It National Security.
May 27, 2026
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as posted by the channelThe Pentagon declared an energy emergency. It's also burning through missiles at a record pace and asking for a 1,327% increase in Tomahawk procurement. So why is the same Pentagon quietly blocking 250 wind farms across 30 states — enough to power 15 million American homes — and calling it a national security measure?
Mike and Neal break down the radar interference argument the Defense Department is using, why it almost never actually prevented a project from being built before now, and what's really going on. Along the way: what wind leases mean for small family farms that can't survive on cattle alone, why rural red-state economies are taking the hit, and how blocking the cheapest form of new electricity undermines the manufacturing reshoring that this administration says it wants.
The national security justification is technically real. It's also being abused. And everyone — ratepayers, farmers, the military itself — is paying for it.
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Topics covered:
How the Pentagon's energy project clearinghouse actually works — and why it resolved nearly every conflict for 15 years before now
The real radar interference problem: what's legitimate, what isn't, and why 250 simultaneous disapprovals fails the smell test
Wind leases as a rural economic lifeline — why this hits family farms harder than any other energy policy
Why wind is uniquely compatible with agricultural land compared to solar or fossil fuel development
The manufacturing reshoring contradiction: you can't onshore industry without cheap, reliable electricity
How abusing the national security justification erodes its credibility for when it actually matters
The 36 gigawatt shortfall and why blocking land-based wind makes it worse
Mailbag:
Response to "We Accidentally Made China the Climate Superpower" — was it really an accident?
The Max Afterburner comment
Goods, Bads & Others:
Mike: A stolen 36 hours in Napa with his wife / Apple and Amazon walking back 24/7 carbon-free electricity commitments / battery-powered container ships
Neal: More Americans getting Memorial Day right / the DOJ's $1.8B "anti-weaponization" fund and what it means for January 6th defendants / his team's weekly 30-minute AI workflow session
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