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Alternative Energy Confusion
pcnetworx1 writes "New York State is starting to get crunched for electricity. While other states may just say 'pop a couple more coal/oil/natural gas/nuclear power plants down', NY has decided to take the green route. NY State wants to get more power by strategically placing windmill powerplants in upstate NY to help the grid. While getting a dedicated power plant placed on your property for FREE (and being paid $3,000 a year per tower) may sounds good to some Slashdotters, the citizens in upstate NY still need some education in the safety of alternative energy."
Where is the confusion in this article?
And, is there a limit to the numer of towers one can have (to prevent "tower-whoring")?
Purple, because ice cream has no bones.
Because you know don't you that the bird population of Upstate New York will suffer huge culls! Oh, and babies will also start speaking in tongues, and, oh, who knows, the world might end.
Stupidity knows no bounds.
Windmill safety warnings:
Do not place windmill into eye.
Never use windmill chop vegetables.
Windmill cannot be used for personal hygiene.
Tilting windmill may result in cliché.
So, all I have to do is buy some small plot of rural land in upstate NY, then lease it to the government to get 3K a year in rent? Awesome! If I can rent out 34 of these plots, I'm a millionare without any effort on my part!
"Why don't folks just use less energy?"
You start - turn off your computer.
I say paint a swirl pattern on the blades of the windmills so they look like the old hyponosis wheels. The birds will be too dizzy to fly near the windmills. If the birds are forced to walk they can't hit the blades. Better to have staggering birds with bad headaches than dead ones.
I recently saw a demo of a Stirling engine. It can generate energy from hot air. All they need to do is ship a few of these to the Governor's Mansion in Albany NY and that state's energy problems will be history.
Upstate New York is full of short-sighted, selfish idiots. These people will continue to be militantly stupid until something impedes their access to cable TV; once that happens, they'll be fighting tooth-and-nail to get wind turbines installed. After that, they'll cover the turbines in bright yellow "Support Our Troops" magnets and sit down in front of the TV until another opportunity to delay technological progress appears.
Move 'sig'. For great justice!
Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just looked at the pictures, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. New York State has been taken over - "conquered," if you will - by a master race of giant alien propellers. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive townsfolk or merely enslave them.
One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the props will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new rotary overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a Slashdot poster with excellent karma, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground storage battery caves.
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If giant alien robots invaded California, would they think the windfarms were just outdoor fitness classes?
Everywhere I went there were signs saying NO TO TURBINES. There have been a series of letters from some crank who writes the local paper who brags about how his education allow him to speak about the evils of scary windmill power (he has an ENGLISH degree) and how that qualifies him to say things like, "Windmills spook the local cows and they will not make milk, or they will make cancer milk!" and other alarmist and ignorant crud like that. Of course, the health of children is at risk too, etc. These are people who beg for prisons to be built in the county, complete with huge, tall, bright watchtowers and watertowers. But for some reason windmills are BAD. By the way, a year before this the signs on the same pieces of property read, "YES TO WALMART." Take that as you will.
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