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Living Inside A Giant Wind Turbine
A reader writes: "New Scientist has an article about buildings that incorporate numerous wind turbines. These neat office blocks can generate much of the own energy and the design of the building actually makes them more power efficient that regular turbines."
And you think that your job blows?
It'll never take off.
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Finally a use for all the hot air my PHB produces.....
Oh arse
I'm a great fan.
But what about one of the other problems with turbine generated power? Namely birds being killed by flying through the path of the turbines. Can you imagine sitting at a redlight beside one of these buildings and suddenly having the front half of a pigeon land on your windshield?
'Life is like a spoonful of Drain-O, it feels good on the way down but leaves you feeling hollow inside'
maybe they could also supply wings so the building could fly away before the airplane hits in it.
-- just a geek - trying to change the world
Hum. Maybe that will finally keep my overclocked system from crashing...
Me! Me! Can I put my ATX Tower open in front of it?
Wind turbines in rural areas are often criticised for detracting from the landscape and for generating noise pollution. Stankovic says noise insulation around the turbines could dampen sound. Traffic in cities would also drown out most of the noise, he suggests.
Engineer 1: Wind power is such a good resource, I wish there was some way for us to tap into it.
Enginner 2: Yeah, but they are loud and ugly and they piss people off. Where can we put them?
Engineer 1: Hmmm, good point. Wait, how about in the middle of a city? They are already ugly and loud, nobody would ever know the difference.
Engineer 2: That's a great idea. We could even incorporate them into the buildings themselves. We'll call it a new paradigm. I've always wanted to use that word.
You know this proposal's gone the moment GreenPeace realizes what happens to pigeons when they get near this thing...
Seen any BadMarketing lately?
giant rock concerts in the buildings 24/7 will drown out the noise of any turbines.
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Damn, you've foiled COBRA's plot for a new weather machine!
GO JOE!
Sure you just throw it in to reverse and it will blow the incoming planes off corse!!
they can reverse power flow and use them as big fans to keep city dwellers cool.
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Government official: Damn, we're paying too much for all this social housing. How can we make more money off of poor people?
Engineer: I know, make them live in power stations.
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1) Rats live large.
2) Point to the dead pigeons and cry "And ye shall ask and ye shall receive!" and write how food surpluses for the homeless are at all time highs...
3) I'm not worried about pigeon bits all over the ground, I'm worried about pigeon bits all over *me*. Imagine going out on a date (yeah, it's a stretch, at least in my case) and you're walking in the moonlight and *splllaaaaattttt*, you both get pigeoned. The good thing would be you could invite her over to your rat's nest to clean up...
If you were me, you'd be good lookin'. - six string samurai
Have you ever heard of anything that actually succeeded in reducing the pidgeon population? My suspicion is that pidgeons are the exception to the usual Darwinian theories. No matter how dumb they are or how hard you try to kill them, they just keep breeding and shitting, shitting, shitting.
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