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Jet Stream Kites Could Power New York City
Damien1972 writes to tell us that researchers from the Carnegie Institution and California State University claim that a fleet of kites could harvest enough energy to run New York and other major cities, especially if they are affected by polar jet streams. "Using 28 years of data from the National Center for Environmental Prediction and the Department of Energy, Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology and Cristina Archer of California State University, Chico compiled the first global survey of wind energy available at high altitudes in the atmosphere. They found that the regions best suited for harvesting this energy align with population centers in the eastern U.S. and East Asia, although they note that 'fluctuating wind strength still presents a challenge for exploiting this energy source on a large scale.'"
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Do any of these kite-engineers know how much a wind turbine and generator WEIGH? We're talking hundreds of tons. Please point to a kite that can lift 1% of that. Now go play with your kites and leave us alone.
Such big balls and no brain... What a shame.
lol, yeah, the UN is going to make other countries start a nuclear war on the United States. That sounds so fucking likely. Plus everybody knows that the first thing the UN do when vexed is to shake its nuclear fist.
You just got troll'd!
The fricking French have a veto.
The 5th largest economy in the world, and the 2nd largest EU economy.
How dare they have any say!
No. In the grand scheme of things, the Security Council could have voted to kick the USA out of the UN and demand a withdrawal from Iraq. You have nuclear armed Europe (France and the UK, and the Germans could always get them), Russia, and China.
No it couldn't. The US has a veto vote and could veto its own expulsion.
I was not aware the british were the UN.
At the time you could make the argument that they were, and I would be willing to say that the British in 1914 had way more power over the world than the USA did say at its peak in 1995. In 1914, The British Empire was the United Nation. Or, shall we say, United Kingdom. Let's see, the British in 1914 controlled or at least had huge influence in Africa, India, big chunks of Asia, Australia, Canada... so yes, dog, that would pretty much be it. You just need to look at a world map and see how much union jack red there was. British were pretty badass in those days.
they really were. Pity they weren't the UN.. which didnt exist.
Wow, that was started by the U.N. too?
Nope, you missed the point. Hitler invades Poland, and the world supercop, the UK, kinda broke from World War I, took the plunge one last time and declared war on Germany.
Please not that it took the UK changing a Prime Minister before they stood up to Germany. Chamberlain wanted to let Hitler have Poland
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