So how big is the oil spill anyway?

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

Makes wind farms look better and better.

BAAAWWWWW THEY RUIN THE LANDSCAPE

BAAAAWWWW NOT IN MY BACKYARD

off-shore wind farms 

[Nast]

Makes wind farms look better and better.

BAAAWWWWW THEY RUIN THE LANDSCAPE

BAAAAWWWW NOT IN MY BACKYARD

off-shore wind farms 

WHY DO YOU HATE THE SKY-WHALES?

[Adios]

Makes wind farms look better and better.

BAAAWWWWW THEY RUIN THE LANDSCAPE

BAAAAWWWW NOT IN MY BACKYARD

off-shore wind farms 

We have wind farms in Kansas. Like the wind ever blows here.

[Jasper]

Oh...  Holy hell.

I can't be the only person here who thinks wind farms are pretty.

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

the problem with wind farms are the windy places arent usually near where most of the population needs them

[Jasper]

Many solutions.

If it's not windy, not sunny, no waves, no rivers, and no decent place to keep a nuclear reactor, how feasible is it really to have a city in that location at all, in the long run?

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

people build in strange places

anyway thats why i said OFFSHORE WIND FARM. cause so many cities w/ coastal winds

[Jasper]

Expensive sounding.  Wind farms are somwhat affordable because you don't have to build platforms for them to float on.

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

off shore wind farms are anchored  to the floor just like off shore oil drilling

[Jasper]

...Interesting!

Sigmatic,
did not know that.

[Nast]

My love for you is greater
than the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

[Doktor Howl]

off shore wind farms are anchored  to the floor just like off shore oil drilling

And when that irresponsible jerk in the boat hits one, it will tip over, ripping loose from the bottom, and the ocean will all drain out.

THANKS, HIPPIES!

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

the major part of that slick covers all of orlando.
orlando is really big. that shit is big.

that doesn't even count the littler part.

and if it hits the coast, not just tampa will be fucked. the whole coast will be fucked.
guess what happens if it hits the gulf stream, which moves 3 ft per second and goes all the way around the state and up the east coast.

HEY!

[Triple Zero]

Oh...  Holy hell.

I can't be the only person here who thinks wind farms are pretty.

No I agree they are pretty.

But only when you're driving past them on a dike or field or something.

I dunno if you ever saw one up close, but those fuckers are HUGE. Well there's several different types here, and the most popular one is gigantic. I once saw one that was being constructed or maintenanced and the triple rotor blade thing was on the ground next to the road. Only then did I realize how enormous they actually are.

The point is, if you live next to one, having a huge white thing rotating in the corner of your eye all the time* when you look/are outside. I can totally imagine it would get on my nerves in a very real but somewhat hard to pinpoint sort of way.

*I once heard that if there's no wind some models are rotated by a motor because it's better for the structure if they don't stand still too long. But there's a lot of conflicting stuff about windmills out there.



Oh, this other time, we were driving back to the city at night, passing a whole field of these things. Imagine this: A dark orangey sky (because of nearby city and of course greenhouses light pollution), looming black objects sticking out into the sky, and red lights on them (for the planes) flashing on and off. It was totally like a scene from the Matrix

[Jenne]

Pretty wind farm in Palm Springs, CA