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Comment by tomatocracy | original | A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't
[−]tomatocracy · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:00 UTC · link
The "fish disco" for the Hinckley Point C nuclear power project is also real and cost millions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_Disco

[−]reaperducer · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:57 UTC · link
Seems like a good idea, since smacks of jellyfish have been known to shut down power plants.
[−]akoboldfrying · 2026-10-11 Sun 11:12 UTC · link
This page started with an amusing name, and just kept getting wilder. 182 million fish per year were expected to die without any protection -- an incredible number, almost 6 fish per second. So now I think "Yes! By all means add some ultrasonic speakers to keep them out!" And then I learn that these speakers will cost £50m... As a part of £700m in total fish protection measures! And that somehow Natural England finds that to be be insufficient!?

I feel like every fish on the Welsh coast could have its own personal concierge for that price.

[−]cowlevel · 2026-10-11 Sun 11:46 UTC · link
What probably happened is that £699.993M got spent on corruption and then £7000 on fish protection measures. Capitalism isn't immune to Goodhart's law.