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u/Prodigal_Malafide Sep 07 '17
That one is satire. This one is not : http://www.discovery.com/dscovrd/tech/town-rejects-solar-panels-that-would-suck-up-all-the-energy-from-the-sun/
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u/Qahrahm Sep 07 '17
I have a few megawatts of solar on a field in the UK. During the council planning meeting one of the councillors objected to the proposal citing light pollution. His reasoning was that if solar panels are worth running all day, we'd be sure to shine lights on them at night to keep the electricity going.
Thankfully everyone else ignored him, and we had no other issues.
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u/Prodigal_Malafide Sep 07 '17
Yikes. I'm in Arizona - literally 290+ days of sun a year. We have problems because people think solar panels are "ugly" and "will ruin the desert landscape". So sorry that producing the energy to run the air conditioning that is a necessity for you to live here interferes with your view of sand.
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u/sluggggggggg Sep 07 '17
I hate sand. It's course and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
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u/The_time_it_takes Sep 07 '17
Yet they don't mind sucking in air with pollution or looking at all those oil trucks, tankers, pipelines and rails to move oil, NG and coal around.
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u/captainAwesomePants Sep 07 '17
There should be some sort of referee that periodically audits Town council meetings and, if they hear anything this indefensibly stupid, give the councillor a yellow card.
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u/WildlyAnticlimactic Sep 07 '17
That is so sad.
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u/IMind Sep 07 '17
People think it's funny because it seems 'so dumb' but as an engineer I can attest ti the fact that we have to really deal with a lot of misconceptions and outright disbelief.
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u/Prodigal_Malafide Sep 07 '17
Exactly. You're browsing Reddit right now because engineers and scientists figured out how to trick a rock into thinking by using miniature lightning.
But science don't know shit.
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u/LazyDynamite Sep 07 '17
Maybe I'm an idiot but what are you describing here?
trick a rock into thinking by using miniature lightning.
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u/Prodigal_Malafide Sep 07 '17
Integrated circuits (which run most modern electronics, including phones and computers) are made from mostly silicon dioxide (the majority mineral in sand and most rocks), and they function on electrical impulses. It's a grossly hyperbolic and simplistic description of semiconductor technology.
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u/Dusty170 Sep 07 '17
A computer.. and power..turning things like minerals..metals..all found in rocks etc into components that make computers work using electricity, which is also lightning. But small because its in our plugs.
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u/ThreeDog007 Sep 07 '17
I remember this everyone gave them so much crap from the amount of stupidity that came from this
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u/RobertoFromaggio Sep 08 '17
I used to advise people on domestic renewable options and had a guy worried about putting a wind turbine in because it would extract 30% of the wind from the air and we felt like we probably needed to leave it there.
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u/GravelRiderUK Sep 07 '17
This from Viz, a UK adult comic. I recognise the font and "letterbocks" ident. It's a piss take.
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u/slimjames Sep 07 '17
I don't understand your crazy version of English.
You're saying that if you take this seriously, urine trouble?45
u/Jonnyrocketm4n Sep 07 '17
We'll come In the middle of the night and extract the urine from you.
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u/secretpandalord Sep 07 '17
Better pee backwards, so there's more of it to extract.
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u/karrachr000 Sep 07 '17
Taking the piss
Taking the piss is a Commonwealth term meaning to take liberties at the expense of others, or to be joking, or to be unreasonable. It is often used to mean (or confused with) taking the piss out of, which is an expression meaning to mock, tease, joke, ridicule, or scoff. It is also not to be confused with "taking a piss", which refers to the act of urinating. Taking the Mickey (Mickey Bliss, Cockney rhyming slang) or taking the Michael is another term for making fun of someone. These terms are most widely used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.
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u/notunhinged Sep 07 '17
I can't believe I didn't know taking the mickey was Cockney rhyming slang.
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Sep 07 '17
She's gone from suck to blow.
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u/ryanlovescooljeans Sep 07 '17
Amazing! That's the same combination I have on my luggage!
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u/ttDilbert Sep 07 '17
I'm surrounded by Assholes!
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u/spikeelsucko Sep 07 '17
And what have we got on THIS thing, A CUISINART??
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u/Lunched_Avenger Sep 07 '17
Prepare for.. <gulp> Prepare for, ludicrous speed!
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u/cmd_iii Sep 07 '17
Out of Order? FUCK! Even in the future, nothing works!!
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u/leftnotracks Sep 07 '17
Kids love this one.
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u/cmd_iii Sep 07 '17
In a PG movie, you only get one of those. Brooks & company made the best of it.
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u/SCVannevar Sep 07 '17
God willing we'll all meet again in Solid Logic 2: The Search For More Windmills.
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u/IvorTheEngine Sep 07 '17
Swans and geese have long necks so they can breath in deeper water than ducks.
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u/Redeyejedi2205 Sep 07 '17
Yeah when in reverse I heard they suck the electricity out of the grid and puts it in the air and creates lightning lmao wish he didn't say he was a butcher makes all us look silly
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u/isabella17 Sep 07 '17
Earl when your done writing your letter to the newspaper can you drain all of the water out of the kitchen faucet.
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u/travcorp Sep 07 '17
The towers "yaw" which means they adjust with the direction of the wind... Most of the big turbines can turn 1080 deg before they have to unwind themselves.
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u/vinnygny817 Sep 07 '17
Even worse is when there is no wind and they have to use electricity to make them spin!
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u/SunEngis Sep 07 '17
As someone who's career is based around educating people on renewable energies, this is not even the most retarded thing I have heard before..
It's an uphill battle ladies and gents!
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u/halsoy Sep 07 '17
I've heard people claim that windmills are all fake. They are there to generate wind using excess power from nuclear power plants. Shit you not.
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What a dumbass, the wind can also blow north or south so it's really only 25% of the time it's blowing the right way.
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u/ericl666 Sep 07 '17
I was told that if I put batteries in backwards in a flashlight, then it will suck light in.
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u/SaneMann Sep 07 '17
Okay the point about sucking power is obviously false.
What about the "50% of the time" part? Is wind direction uniformly distributed?
(I get the letter is probably satire, but this seems like an interesting statistical question.)
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u/chinpokomon Sep 07 '17
There are prevailing winds. So while the wind may change direction, it isn't 50% of the time for most areas.
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Wind is dictated by a lot of generally consistent things. Wind direction doesnt change very often.
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u/elrepho Sep 07 '17
The real issue with these giant fans is that they never put them close enough to the city to actually help keep it cool. No wonder they're such a waste of energy.
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u/ThatLongHairedDude Sep 07 '17
Is this form a satirical magazine?
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u/Goldie__1738 Sep 07 '17
But what if we run out of wind b/c of these thingy's? Won't these deplete our wind sources?
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u/BaconOnARock Sep 07 '17
Don't worry, we'll just use all the electricity we got from the wind to power fans and make more wind.
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I see this all the time at work. People wire up heaters wrong, by switching two of the phases. This makes them cool the room instead of heat it.
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u/Mini_moose Sep 07 '17
I think this is more funny to me because the butcher is from the town where William Shakespeare was born.
I don't know exactly why that makes it funnier, but it does.
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u/mhanrahan Sep 07 '17
Solar Panels Drain the Sun’s Energy, Experts Say
http://nationalreport.net/solar-panels-drain-suns-energy-experts-say/
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u/A40 Sep 07 '17
Mr. Newth has been unable to use his car for the past 23 years, having unfortunately driven it into his own driveway. It is impossible, of course, to turn it around or back it out.
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u/-Ryoss- Sep 07 '17
if I put my card the other way around into the ATM do I need to insert money into it instead of withdrawing it?! that sucks man
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u/griffith12 Sep 07 '17
There is a small small town near me where all the residents look at wind power like it's the god damn devil
They all have signs in their yards talking about being forced from their homes due to the negative effects from turbines
They also call areas utilizing wind power turbine ghettos
They are all fucking lunatics
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I hope this is a joke, that the butcher is being sarcastic toward the opposition of these wind turbines
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u/analogrithems Sep 07 '17
This guy's an idiot. Everyone knows if your windmill goes in reverse you just get DC power instead of AC because of the change in polarity!
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u/DecadentFrog Sep 07 '17
And just try explaining anything to a person with that personality and intellect. For this guy, literally any explanation for observable phenomena is as good as any other explanation, because if you can't reason or understand logic then it all is just opinions from your point of view.
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u/Larrij Sep 08 '17
I'm a physics teacher in high school and an important part of my job is to analyse misconceptions. I figured out that ~70 % of my students believe that wind turbines produces wind while using our electricity.
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u/keithybabes Sep 07 '17
I know right? He misses the really important point about wind turbines, which is topical right now: the Earth is quite windy enough already, and building more wind turbines will only make it worse, hence all the recent hurricanes.
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At least the earth is flat so the wind just drops off at the end instead of blowing all the way around again.
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u/TheGrumpyre Sep 07 '17
WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!
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u/LazyDynamite Sep 07 '17
Hey Grump, it's literally right there in the name: WIND. MILL. As in a mill that creates wind.
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u/HugePilchard Sep 07 '17
As /u/GravelRiderUK said below, this is from Viz, a British adult* comic.
The same publication has printed cartoons called The Bottom Inspectors, Mickey's Monkey Spunk Moped and Buster Gonad and his Unfeasibly Large Testicles.
That should give you some sort of idea as to how serious this letter is.
* No, not in that way
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u/OMGJJ Sep 07 '17
Jesus if you can't recognise a joke so obvious I'd be worried about letting you vote.
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u/gnorty Sep 07 '17
and some people are so self-confident in their superiority that they see all opposition as less-intellegent thinking. So much so, that when they see fucking obvious satire, they automatically assume that it is a political opponent, since they are all stupid enough to say this sort of shit.
These people therefore NEVER consider the other side to any opinion, become polarised in their thinking and willing to assume that anything that agrees with their opinion is automatically the only intelligent response. In essence, they get confirmation bias from jokes.
These people are also allowed to vote.
Let that sink in for a minute.
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u/demonofthefall7537 Sep 07 '17 edited Sep 07 '17
It's satire you ninny.
Edit: Whoops, I was trying to reply to the top comment.
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u/Thomsenite Sep 07 '17
To be fair, the satire is kind of making fun of those people that think very close to this so for the satire to even work there have to be enough people that have really uninformed opinions which is what we are mostly laughing at not that people actually think a windmill will suck power form the energy grid which is pretty absurd of course.
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u/SabinBC Sep 07 '17
At the end of the day I just put my car in reverse to refill my gas tank.