Wind turbines

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm fascinated by these fuckers. We don't have them on the Western side of the state, but go to the Eastern side and they're everyfuckingwhere:





And they're quite large.











I've never gotten up close to them. You can drive through them, but you aren't supposed to stop and hang out with them. Do you guys have many of them near where you live? They're so weird. And cool.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

Had a few in Wyoming. Arizona, of course, is having none of that renewable-energy shit dreamed up by latte-sipping liberals from Yale.

I think they're cool looking, but I'm not super impressed with the technology to be honest. Just not futury enough for me.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Had a few in Wyoming. Arizona, of course, is having none of that renewable-energy shit dreamed up by latte-sipping liberals from Yale.

I think they're cool looking, but I'm not super impressed with the technology to be honest. Just not futury enough for me.

When I was at the conference in November we got a preview of some new wind turbine designs coming up. I think you'll be pleased.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Actually, come to think of it, you might not be pleased at all, because they're based on biomimicry.

This might not be your future. 

[tyrannosaurus vex]

No, biomimicry is awesome. What I don't like about the ones we have is they look awkward to me. Biomimicry would probably go a long way toward fixing that.

[Eater of Clowns]

The neighboring town put up a couple of them recently. Residents nearby fought tooth and nail to prevent them being put in, and put in grievance after grievance once they were operating because the swooping sound they made caused them psychological distress.

Naturally, before my local satire page went defunct, they were ridiculed ruthlessly.

[The Johnny]

yeah, when all birds die ang go extinct because they go into turbine and we run out of air because it depletes it and no more waves in the ocean and nothing ti breath you will think twice of your hippy dreams of free energies

[Suu]

I'm with you Nigel, I think they're gorgeous!

I think they were a vast improvement in the Port of Providence. My friends and I even named them.

These are the girls: Windy, Wendy, and Gale.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jj7o_V79fWk/UMfpZO0goLI/AAAAAAAAAoc/ksxkkElFVs0/s1600/Beacon+Wind+Turbine+Photo.JPG (big pic)


And then the first one built in the state, which is part of New England Tech, is Mariah, further down the road is Gwynt, which I guess is Welsh for wind. In Wickford we have Wicket the Wicked Wickford Windmill, and in Narragansett we have Salty.

Then we have the offshore farm near Block Island:

[Suu]

Here's Mariah!



Wicket, he's MASSIVE:


Here's Salty when he was being built:

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

They're neat. One of the things that trips me out is just the sheer enormous scale, partly because there are so many of them over East of the Cascades. It kind of boggles my mind. Hundreds and hundreds of them.



My brain can't quite handle the scale of it. And there are even more of them in Washington and California, I think.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

The bigness is one redeeming value. Also having a field of generators just powering civilization in a way that's more like a handshake with the environment than a violent conquest of it. Which, now that I think about it, is probably why so many people oppose them so angrily.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Suu, you guys seem to have them quite close to human habitation... or is that an optical illusion? We don't put ours near anything, but then again most of the state is uninhabited.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The bigness is one redeeming value. Also having a field of generators just powering civilization in a way that's more like a handshake with the environment than a violent conquest of it. Which, now that I think about it, is probably why so many people oppose them so angrily.

That, and it spoils their view.

Not kidding, that's a huge point of contention.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

The bigness is one redeeming value. Also having a field of generators just powering civilization in a way that's more like a handshake with the environment than a violent conquest of it. Which, now that I think about it, is probably why so many people oppose them so angrily.

That, and it spoils their view.

Not kidding, that's a huge point of contention.

They should learn to appreciate manmade structures as belonging in the natural world, then. My father in law hates them to pieces because the land owners are allowed to shoot down eagles, but him and his hunting buddies aren't.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Of course, sometimes they do this:



and that's bad.