• billybob@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    Could anyone explain to me how Trump is able to tell people wind and solar are more dangerous than coal and oil and they believe him? Shouldn’t a 5th grader be able to know the difference?

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      3 days ago

      I’ve had the displeasure of taking to MAGA people. They are indeed dumber than a fifth grader.

  • artyom@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    Trump has said a lot of dumb things. Among some of the dumbest are the suggestion of shining UV lights inside the body or injecting bleach to cure COVID (this one’s a two-fer) and the suggestion that windmills cause cancer.

  • SuperZorro@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 days ago

    Denmark is big on wind power, and its extra windy these days, so electricity is basically free right now. But yeah, such a hoax. /s

  • Bwaz@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Well, when the world’s most obviously idiotic leader calls someone or something “stupid”, those people or things should bear serious consideration

  • janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world
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    It looks like those wind generators are anchored somewhere below the surface which makes sense. Could you attach something along the shaft that will rise and fall with the surface level to also help generate power? I know ive seen theoretical machines that can harness waves for energy and it seems like you could combine these two methods into one apparatus

    • vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      Of course you could, but the energy math only really makes sense if you scale it up.

      Most tidal energy projects involve damming a bay or reservoir and extracting energy with turbines as water flows in or out due to the tides.

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        I wonder if you could make a grid in 3 dimensions that could harvest energy as the nodes change position relative to each other, almost like a piezoelectric system on a macro scale edit: i’m kinda stoned so the ideas are flowing freely lol

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            I was actually thinking about something like that recently. I read a book by Peter Hamilton that had biomechanoid space ships incubating in jovian orbit because of the radiation, and then the other day there was an article somewhere about (potentially) radiotrophic fungi in the chernobyl exclusion zone and I was thinking you could line a spacecraft/station with that stuff. I guess it’s no surprise that melanin is just stupid good at absorbing ionizing radiation since that’s what is has evolved to do

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      3 days ago

      I bet it’s possible but I wonder how much more complex the engineering would have to be to account for that and financials

  • j_elgato@leminal.space
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    3 days ago

    Right, his revenge vendetta against… the wind.

    I don’t remember what the fuck that’s about: Is that one of the important ones that we need to keep track of like how he fucks little kids or wants to invade Canada, or is that one just background noise that can be safely ignored like how he pretends to be tall or how he wants to fuck his own daughter?

    God, I’m so tired…

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      It’s literally about how Scotland refused to tear down the wind farm that was off the coast of his golf course there. He said it ruined the view.

      So because of that: no new wind power in the US.

      Isn’t it awesome having to live according to the whims of a malignant narcissist who acts like a fucking 6 year old?

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Just wait until fuel prices hit 10 or 15 dollars. At that point, basically free electricity starts looking rather tempting…

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    3 days ago

    only reaction to anything that pissface says should just be SHUT UP. Complete excommunication.

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    3 days ago

    And yet his war on iran has now driven everyone to maximize efforts on alternative energy sources.

    Keep it going dumb-ass. Dispite all your efforts you might -indirectly- become the greenest president anywhere ever.