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    Image of exoren22 exoren22
    11/03/09

    In reply to Remainders: Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    Not to mention that windfarms reduce wind and make the surrounding area heat up as a result. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of EBone EBone
    11/03/09

    @exoren22: I don't even know how to reply to the stupidity of your statement, other than I hope you forgot your sarcasm tag. #gizmodoremainders
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    11/03/09

    @EBone: Well, considering it's a real world problem, I don't even know how to reply to your ignorance, except to tell you to go to San Francisco in the summer time, when they used to have a cooling wind coming down from the mountains.

    You know we can't get energy for free, right? Hydroelectric power reduces water flow and causes the destruction of wildlife both upstream and downstream. Solar power has local heating problems that CANNOT be fixed, and massive wind farms destroy the natural heat transfer created by wind patterns. #gizmodoremainders
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    11/03/09

    @exoren22: You really believe that the turbine blades take the wind "away"? That the wind doesn't turn the blades and keep on blowing past, over, and around the blades?

    I have no words. #gizmodoremainders
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    11/03/09

    @EBone: I think he's actually right, but he's blowing it way out of proportion. It's more on the same scale of dumping a bottle of filtered water into a lake to change the pH. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of runamok1001 runamok1001
    11/03/09

    @EBone: exoren22 is right though I don't know to what degree. Conservation of energy means there is no free ride and no perpetual motion machines. Just like a hydroelectric dam can slow a river to a trickle, wind farms use the wind to do work, thus depleting some of the kinetic energy in that wind. But once again, I have no idea of the total energy of the wind or how much energy is extracted so I could not testify to the effect.
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    11/03/09

    @runamok1001: Do yourself a favor and look at an isobar map of the United States. They measure pressure gradients. Wind is generated when air moves from high pressure areas to low pressure areas.

    Isobar front lines are hundreds to thousands of miles long. Wind projects don't even show up on the scale we're talking about here. It would be the equivalent of trying to stop the Mississippi River with a 2x4. #gizmodoremainders
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    11/03/09

    In reply to Remainders: Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    The wind farm thing really speaks more to how we really need to upgrade our air traffic control to newer modern technology stat. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of 70watts 70watts
    11/03/09

    In reply to Remainders: Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    Wind turbines really don't kill that many birds in comparison to things like planes, trucks and... trees. That's a common myth.

    Here's the google results for that.
    [www.google.com]
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    Don Nguyen promoted this comment Edited by 70watts at 11/03/09 12:40 AM 70watts was starred 70watts was unstarred
    Image of Fractal the Meek Fractal the Meek
    11/03/09

    In reply to Remainders: Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    Thank you for being a champion for the essence of e-readership! And also, I've seen at least one notably less comfortable bike design.
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    11/02/09

    In reply to Remainders: Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    Grandpa bikes excluded (upright riding), a bike seat needs only provide support to the bony part of your bottom while minimizing interference and chaffing with your thighs. This is why racing seats look so terrible, but are actually quite comfortable. This seat seems to give you a choice of supporting your weight on your anus or testicles. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/02/09

    In reply to Remainders: Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    The obvious solution is to put the wind farms in Manhattan, so they'll kill all these fucking pigeons. #gizmodoremainders
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    11/02/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Mmm... Gotta love those post-windfarm mornings, with the surreal pink mist of pigeon guts over Manhattan, and little feet and feathers falling to the streets below... #gizmodoremainders
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    11/02/09

    @Gordonium: Sounds heavenly. #gizmodoremainders
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    11/03/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: a wind turbine of the vertical axis variety, about the size of a water tower, would probably do very well at both generating electricity and getting rid of pesky pigeons. And properly designed it could also have a receptacle for the remains so that they could be put to good use. Then we'd have cheap electricity and we wouldn't have to make soylent green out of people anymore.

    PS I'm trademarking the term "squabchoppers" #gizmodoremainders
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    11/03/09

    @weatherman: Plus when the pigeons hit the side of the turbine, it would actually make it go faster. #gizmodoremainders
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    11/03/09

    @weatherman: and @saycarramrod: It's exactly this kind of ingenuity that made America what it is today! #gizmodoremainders
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    11/02/09

    In reply to Remainders: Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    I want a picture of a person trying to sit on that bike. #gizmodoremainders
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    11/02/09


    @Toastie: Oh no, it's on a mission to grind that man's genitals into a fine powder. #gizmodoremainders
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    11/02/09

    @Toastie: Damn, that looks so awkward to pedal. #gizmodoremainders
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    11/03/09

    @Toastie: I loved this bike until I saw what a person looks like on it. A good idea but needs some work. #gizmodoremainders
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    11/03/09

    @The Lab: yeah, the first pic looks like it makes some sense, but then you realize there's almost no leg extension (which means no power). Cool look though. #gizmodoremainders
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    01/13/09

    In reply to Aliens Send a Message to UK: Wind Power Sucks
    Intergalactic pwnage!
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    01/13/09

    In reply to Aliens Send a Message to UK: Wind Power Sucks
    Great. Just great. This is all I need.
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    01/13/09

    In reply to Aliens Send a Message to UK: Wind Power Sucks
    Simple answer. So guy took it and is walking down the street with the blade in a carriage bringing it to the recycling center. Saw it in Newark all the time.
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    01/13/09

    @KesselRunner_GitEmSteveDave: Kind of like when I see crack heads get on the bus carrying large garbage bags of copper that has been obviously ripped out of anything they can get their hands on.
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    01/13/09

    @KesselRunner_GitEmSteveDave: Is it bad that after I saw Cloverfield that I remarked: Basically they're just making NY look like Newark?
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    01/13/09

    @KesselRunner_GitEmSteveDave: You know, I have an old piece of exercise equipment I have been trying, a mock bowflex that fell apart pretty quick. Can you ask those aliens to swing by my house and check out the side yard.
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    01/13/09

    @Shamoononon has hebetudinous dog ★★★★★: Put a sign on it outside which says, "For Sale $100". Put a chain and lock around it, but don't lock the lock. It should be gone very quickly.
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    Image of dezinewiz dezinewiz
    01/13/09

    In reply to Aliens Send a Message to UK: Wind Power Sucks
    O.K., folks...


    Like, totally -


    "To seek out new civilizations... To go to places no man has gone before..., etc..."


    So, I think that a) The United States Government needs to make clear to the public that we are in fact in contact with alien beings. b) Listen to the writings of Gene Roddenberry, and c) Have Apple+Nasa+Google design a starship so that we can bring peace to the galaxy!


    Maybe we humanity should focus a bit less on the stock market, blowing up twin towers, screwing up economies, and more on things like this...??


    And, yes, Steve Jobs should control it all, because he is one of the only folks that makes any halfway decent amount of sense in the techno-world.

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    01/13/09

    @dezinewiz: What would the death of Emperor Jobs do to the masses?
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    01/13/09

    In reply to Aliens Send a Message to UK: Wind Power Sucks
    It was The Doctor...
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    01/13/09

    @wizardofpants: Cause we all know how turbulent the Tardis is when it's flying...
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    01/13/09

    In reply to Aliens Send a Message to UK: Wind Power Sucks
    Man, won't we all feel like asses for making fun of these people when we find out that it really was aliens.
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    01/13/09

    In reply to Aliens Send a Message to UK: Wind Power Sucks
    Pirates...
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