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Scotland Building Wave Power Farms
eldavojohn writes "Scottish engineers are taking advantage of the huge ocean coast that Scotland enjoys by building a 'wave farm' to harvest electricity from the ocean's powerful waves. These big red tubes have been named the Pelamis System after a sea snake. Max Carcas, the business developer for the firm, says it is 'a bit like a ship at anchor or a flag on a flagpole, it self orientates into the waves ... Waves then travel down the length of the machine and in doing so each of the sections, each of these train carriages, moves up and down and side to side.' These snake-like movements push hydraulic fluid through generators to produce electricity."
{democrat seagull}
OMG! The world is coming to an end! If we don't change our behavior now, the whole planet is done. Aghhhhh!!!!
--runs like a chicken with his head cut off--
--out of the crowd's site, he calms down and starts evaluating if that earning the necessary personal karma for the next power grab--
"Dear, could you turn the Olympic sized pool to 115F? Our hot-tub is just far too small.
Do you think we add a couple more floors on this empty nester monstrosity? As it is, I don't think we're absolutely dwarfing the common family to the degree that we fully should."
{/democrat seagull}
"Except the amazing willful ignorance of humans"
And you are the perfect running example of that.
"But the point is that piers don't last without maintenance, and neither do stronger things on coastlines."
No, that was NOT your point. Your point was "This thing is going to get wiped out the first time a major storm comes through anyway" which, amazingly, morphed further and further away from your ridiculous original statement to become "things on the coast need maintenance".
It's incredibly funny to see you get so invested in this stupid fucking web board that you have to lie so obviously in an effort to maintain your sense of infallibility. Meanwhile, the rest of are are watching your posts and laughing at you or shaking our heads because of the stupidity of your attempts. You don't even realize how dumb you look trying to avoid being wrong, especially when we've all seen that you're wrong already. It would be sad if you weren't such a pompous cunt. Instead it's vastly amusing, and YOU CAN'T EVEN SEE WHY. That's the best part.
At least you're good for laughing at if not for useful information or valid opinions. Every court needs a jester, so thanks for volunteering.
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Thanks to the current practices of the timber industry, there are more trees in North America now than there were in pre-Columbian times. They plant several for each one they cut down. It is in their interest to do so, so they'll have something to harvest 30 years from now.
The Lorax gave an incorrect impression to a whole generation of kids.
That that is is that that that that is not is not.
What, the Scots finally figured out how to sodomize these "wave powers?"
I kid, I kid. Some of my best friends are sheep, I mean Scots.