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Alt.Energy.Dopey: Wind Power Weirdness |
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Dr. Samuel Says -
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Thursday, 12 November 2009 |
Alternative energy initiatives are rather trendy these days, what with our impeding environmental Armageddon and all. I’ve been doing my own research of course, here at Dyscern’s Underwater R&D Complex and Post-Apocalypse Bunker. Not a lot of people know this, but the Apple iPod can actually be converted to a perpetual motion machine. For you scientifically challenged out there, that means it can actually generate more power than it consumes.
 The trick is that you have to program the entire Gordon Lightfoot
discography into random shuffle, then cross-reference each song with a
.JPG image of the letter “L” in Helvetica font. Don’t ask me why, but
it works. I can’t disclose the specifics -- patent pending, you see.
Anyway, back to the topic. Came across this interesting news item last
week. Alternative energy company First Wind announced that the proposed
site for its new wind tower project was too windy to efficiently
generate electricity. To be fair, the company’s explanation sounds
reasonable -- the gusts along the Black Mountain range in western Maine
are so strong they could burn out the wind turbine bearings. Still, it
seems these these guys might be a little picky. A proposed solar power
plant in California was deemed “too sunny,” a tidal power plant in
Florida “too wavy” and a geothermal plant in Cleveland “too
Cleveland-y.”
It occurs to me that this the kind of news story that Al Gore hater
types love to disseminate (“Proposed wind farm site too windy!”) and
those poor guys have precious little ammo to work with these days. In
the interest of charity, we’re donating this item to the Glenn Beck
Ideological Bankruptcy Fund.
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