• @[email protected]
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    302 years ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      222 years ago

      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.

  • Norah (pup/it/she)
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    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    32 years ago

    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.

      • Overzeetop
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        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          202 years ago

          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.

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            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.

  • Margot Robbie
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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.

  • @[email protected]
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    2292 years ago

    When stupid people think their opinions are as good as opinions from experts, the world edges closer to extinction.

      • @[email protected]
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        82 years ago

        Maybe attempted satire, but definitely not from a hilarious person. Once you’ve met these people in the wild, these jokes stop being funny.

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          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

          • @[email protected]
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            22 years ago

            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.

      • @[email protected]
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        82 years ago

        Almost certainly, the British do sarcasm in a way that the colonials just don’t get.

        Lemmies are often too autistic to realize this.

        • @[email protected]
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          42 years ago

          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.

        • @[email protected]
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          62 years ago

          I can’t believe people are taking this seriously even after it’s been pointed out it’s blatant satire

      • @[email protected]
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        262 years ago

        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.

    • @[email protected]
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      612 years ago

      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…

      • @[email protected]
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        362 years ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          172 years ago

          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.

        • @[email protected]
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          222 years ago

          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.

          • @[email protected]
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            112 years ago

            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!

          • @[email protected]
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            22 years ago

            They’re all 5G antennas / amplifiers and the faster they spin the more 5G mind control waves they put out

      • Alien Nathan Edward
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        42 years ago

        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?

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      If you think this is real, I have some bad news about the overlap between stupid people and yourself.

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      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

    • LUHG
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      32 years ago

      Battery was 69% so it passes.

    • kirk781
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      22 years ago

      needs more jpeg Maybe one more time and battery indicator at top.

  • kase
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    62 years ago

    Finally, a balanced source /s