The trick is to give and take exactly 50% of the wind energy. That way, you can set up an entropy rig and capture that energy.
And you must remember not to take the best wind, you need to leave the best wind alone so it can make the next generation stronger.
When I was in high school we got to go on a field trip to a wind farm. They had one stopped on a kinda windy day so they could show us it starting up. Watching the blades rotate on their axis, then seeing this massive turbine slowly start to spin, was so fucking cool.
Dunning Kruger curve in action
Yes, but not in the way you think it is.
The people who use the word boffin are invariably thick cunts.
Next thing he’ll be claiming they are giants and must be killed.
It’s my time to shine.
Not so fast. I want to know if he knows about birds fucking with the time trajectory when those turbines aren’t spinning and pushing Earth faster.
Genius
Well by real world logic, i get a headwind twice a day when i commute to and from work.
So technically speaking they just drain the net from all the solar that’s stored when it is sunny.
Let’s hope that guy was just messing around and not actually that dumb as a lot of people seem to be nowadays.
On another note i jokingly called them fans last summer and thanked the local county for turning them on as it was pretty hot out.
You all know this is irony right? It’s either out of Private Eye or Viz.
Pretty sure it’s Viz.
Thanks, I wasn’t sure, but that makes sense.
It’s 100% Letterbocks in Viz.
Reminds me of KenM
Definitely Viz dry humour vibes.
The last decade has broken anyone’s ability to separate sarcasm from reality.
A former high school science teacher in NC argued at a public hearing for a solar project that the solar panels would suck up all the energy from the sun and then all of their crops would die.
Science.
Teacher.The fall of the Roman empire will be considered graceful compared to the impending collapse from the weight of our own collective stupidity.
well, if you place the solar panels together, with no gaps, on top of the crops…
Fun fact: https://lemmy.world/comment/5051720
Some places, a little shadow could be good for crops.
COVID pandemic shattered my belief that we are an intelligent species and that we have made any progress in last 70 or so years. Now I firmly believe that the next natural disaster - be it pandemic or famine or any global crisis - will be our last one.
There are constant natural disasters, pandemics, famines, wars, climate going berserk… and if you look at the world population counter, it’s still going up.
With 8 billion people out there, an average lifespan of 80 would make it “normal” for 100 million to die each year. The average lifespan is barely over 72, though, that’s got room for a lot of disasters in there.Any global disaster that doesn’t kill at least 10% of the population, or over 800 million, is barely going to register on a “species” scale.
Brace yourself for a disaster a day for the foreseeable future. This is the new normal.
At this point that might be for the best.
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When the wind blows the other way, you are supposed to plug all your appliances in backwards to trick the power grid into going the right direction again. Duh.
I’m only an actress and even I managed to figure it out, who needs butchers for wind turbines anyways.
I mean bro did admit he is only a butcher
When stupid people think their opinions are as good as opinions from experts, the world edges closer to extinction.
No chance this was satire from a hilarious person?
Maybe attempted satire, but definitely not from a hilarious person. Once you’ve met these people in the wild, these jokes stop being funny.
They’re letters arranged in a sentence and people assume you can here the emotive voice in their head when they wrote it. This is why the /s exists. Without it sometimes people can’t tell and rightly so. Not using and /s and thinking you’ve wooshed someone can be ironic
I’m invoking Poe’s Law. I’ve met people, family friends, who would flip between Climate Change not being real to Wind Turbines causing Climate Change. The posted image is absolutely possible to have come from a true believer.
Almost certainly, the British do sarcasm in a way that the colonials just don’t get.
Lemmies are often too autistic to realize this.
Yeah, British humour is not something an American can understand. If there’s no “laugh here” sign, then they’ll never understand that it’s a joke.
I can’t believe people are taking this seriously even after it’s been pointed out it’s blatant satire
Are you sure they did not just want to make the reader say “cocks” in their brain?
The hilarious thing is, this letter is absolutely intended humourously. It’s from the comic Viz, and the “Letterbocks” section regularly contains jokes and letters mocking the letters sent into newspapers.
That’s literally just humans being human
you’ll have to take into account that this comes from the UK, where “The people in this country have had enough of experts”
Thats some next level stupid
it’s the britain that made brexit happen, of course it’s next level stupid.
spoilers : it’s been getting worse since, I escaped in 2018
😬😬 sorry my dude, hope your future is better wherever you ended up.
Obviously… since it’s AC power it doesn’t matter what direction the powers going.
Some people just don’t know how stupid they sound…
That’s not how that works, moron. Wind turbines only spin one way (see image above), so they clearly generate DC. Obviously, to convert it to AC, there are little hampsters in wheels switching the direction of the electricity back and forth.
Idiot.
Obviously, to convert it to AC, there are little hampsters in wheels switching the direction of the electricity back and forth.
Idiot.
Nice way to display your own stupidity. Everyone knows hamsters have fallen out of fashion for that like a hundred years ago. Gerbils is where it’s at!
Mongrel.
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Way to tell us how dated you are
It’s common knowledge that stink energy from ferrets is the future
Pft! You kids and your new-fangled mumbo jumbo. GET OFF MY LAWN!
You should sell your idea to Adrian Newth
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Plus the static electricity in there stays in the same place either way
I don’t get how spinning a fan to make wind helps with electricity. They’re just big versions of the fan in my lounge room and that requires power to work. It’s all a Bill Gates scheme for more money.
All these hurricanes they say as related to global warming coming at the same time they install all the giant fans? I might not have gone to school but I can see what’s going on!
They’re all 5G antennas / amplifiers and the faster they spin the more 5G mind control waves they put out
If it’s just AC power what am I gonna do with all my other gadgets? Can I make the AC blow into my fridge and keep my food cold?
If you think this is real, I have some bad news about the overlap between stupid people and yourself.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’
- Isaac Asimov
This was a while ago. Now they are not ashamed anymore, to weaponize their ignorance.
The lesson to be learned here is that shitposting doesn’t just happen online.
This person is almost certainly on a wind up.
Poe’s law.
It’s from Viz; their letters section is basically The Onion
Or more succinctly; don’t conflate your ignorance with someone else’s knowledge.
Lemmy’s mum has got it going on, she’s all I want and I’ve waited for so long
Wow conspiracy 101 lol
TIL wind turbines rotate towards the wind direction.
I thought they’d just need an phase inverter since they produce AC.
Maybe that could be quite an inefficient operation? I dunno.
A copy of a copy of a copy.
Orange peel.
Battery was 69% so it passes.
needs more jpeg Maybe one more time and battery indicator at top.
Finally, a balanced source /s
