• @[email protected]
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    2331 year ago

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

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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

    • @[email protected]
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      611 year 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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        361 year 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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          171 year 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.

      • @Hereforpron2
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        121 year ago

        Plus the static electricity in there stays in the same place either way

        • @[email protected]
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          221 year 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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            111 year 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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            21 year 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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        41 year 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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        241 year 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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        31 year 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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            01 year 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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        -61 year 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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          61 year 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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          31 year 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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    1031 year ago

    This is only slightly less dumb than the people that think solar panels take sunlight away from plants.

  • Decoy321
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    781 year ago

    By that logic, if he’s butchering meat and cutting from a different direction, does it put the meat back on?

  • @[email protected]
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    721 year ago

    Lotta smug people in here having a laugh at the obvious satire, but from a technical standpoint this can be a real problem.

    Happened to me this AM – had to eat cold bread after it untoasted itself, then get back in bed before my alarm clock unrung. I had stuff to do today

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    His great great great grandad thought the same about water wheels. What if the river started flowing the other way? Did anyone think of that???

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          fwiw, chemical energy batteries (aka typical batteries) are also potential energy batteries.

          I don’t know a simple or correct label that differentiates batteries whose potential energy is gravity-dependent from batteries whose potential energy is chemical-reaction-dependent, but the concept of gravity-based energy storage absolutely is cool as heck.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Yeah it’s weird, they are called gravity batteries but there’s options for other versions coming down the pipeline.

          • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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            11 year ago

            Yes, they are cool and we have lots of them. There was plenty of oil from the USSR but some rather forward-thinking measures were made during the Cold War to ensure our energy self-reliance in case of a global conflict. Odd that Poland doesn’t even though they have similar amounts of coal.

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          11 year ago

          Yes, our country built them wherever we could. The one I visited uses a lake in what is now a first-class national park zone. Whoops, they are now only allowed to create a 4 cm peak-to-peak fluctuation of the water level.

      • 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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          201 year 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.

  • Norah - She/They
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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.

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    This man is an intellectual screw Einstein and bloody opiumhimer get this man on the world stage /s

  • @[email protected]
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    361 year ago

    This man has a point. It would be much more effective if the wind is always blowing into the turbines. That sounds impossible, but you could simply place the turbine on a car. Whenever driving, there is lots of wind, and it always comes from the front of the car (unless you put the car in reverse, but that is not a state that the car is in for a long time).

    /s (although I have had to genuinly explain to people why this does not charge the battery of an electric vehicle).

    • @[email protected]
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      181 year ago

      This is how we know the earth is flat. If it’s round, the earth would spin and the turbines would catch the wind and spin. I’ve tested this extensively by holding pinwheels while spinning in a roller chair until I blow chunks. Since the turbines stop sometimes, it’s clearly a spirit on the edge of the map, blowing until he takes another breath.

      I’m telling you, everything about my theory blows.

    • @[email protected]
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      I saw a “job” posting for an engineer to develop that technology for someone. They were quite clear that they needed an out of the box thinker type, which made me wonder how many times this was explained to them.

      I think about that posting sometimes and worry that he will just try it and the turbine will just fly off on the highway into the car behind his.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        There was a Veritasium video like 2 years ago about wind powered vehicles. I guess it’s possible they saw a video like it. Physics can be very unintuitive sometimes, but, vehicles like sail boats do make sense.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          It wasnt a land sail craft it was a fan that powered a car thus giving infinite energy. Also he was offering to pay in future stock.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            You could probably apply the land sail craft trick to a car with a fan. The fan might need a special design, but it could potentially work the same way.

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              11 year ago

              Go ahead but please please don’t go on a public road. There is enough death in the world, we don’t have to add to it when a blade flings off your turbine and takes out an innocent.

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                Ironically, that’s nonsense. Experimental cars on public roads barely cause any deadly accidents (under 1%), unlike distracted road-certified human drivers (over 80%); there is still twice as many births than deaths per year, predictions don’t expect there to be “enough” deaths for a stable population before 2085; and wind turbine blades already can change pitch without flying apart anyway. 🤷

                • @[email protected]
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                  I’m sorry, are you saying experimental cars cause almost 1% of road deaths, despite making up a tiny fraction of 1% of cars on the road? or is everything you just said made up and I majorly whooshed?

  • @[email protected]
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    301 year 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.

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      221 year 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.

  • 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.