Wind turbines used to absorb a power surplus?

I'm kind of autistic and don't much care for people or music or art, but I love romantic stories [1]. I guess the tiny mating part of my brain survived being crowded out by electronics.

That makes sense evolutionarily. If engineers weren't romantic, they would be selected out of the population and everybody would be artists.

There must be a reason that some women, generally great women, like enginers but I haven't figured out why.

[1] Favorite book A Damsel In Distress tied with The Art Of Electronics

Favorite movie Pride and Prejudice 2005

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John Larkin
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It's also a great method of power distribution. Less visual impact than pylons.

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Clive Arthur

Yeah seem a few video shorts of cats doing that.

But I doubt many birds die like that.

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Rod Speed

Sure. Everything dies eventually, so if you create more critters, more will die.

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John Larkin

Someone published an alleged circuit diagram - it was actually for a wah wah FX pedal.

I didnt think you could get stupider than remoaners or Greens. I was wrong.

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The Natural Philosopher

God, I hope so...

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The Natural Philosopher

Lots of seedy things go rancid. Fritos don't.

I stand on our deck and dramatically eat a few Fritos. That annoys the ravens waiting in the trees, and they fly up to get theirs before they are all gone.

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John Larkin

Yawn. It has to be a very STUPID bird.

Neither do you. I am sorry to dent your denialism, but around 20 million birds a year have to die.

Out here where there are at the moment no cats at all, I am not inundated with them

Probably because I dont feed the weaklings that get fat fall off the bird table and cant fly because of laziness and obesity

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The Natural Philosopher

Cataract surgery involves using a needle to emulsify and slurp out the old lens, and then uses another needle to inject the new artificial lens. It takes about 10 minutes.

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John Larkin

No, there are really not

They arent starting from cold. They are running at maybe 80%. Responses to steam throttles are instantanoous

You missed steam out of that list.

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The Natural Philosopher

Here they dint shoot any deer for a few years. I saw over a hundred in a herd. The next year they got professional hunter in to get them down to the 10-20 herd sizes.

They have destroyed about 80% of anything I ever planted.

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The Natural Philosopher

Those aren't birds. They are social security scroungers

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The Natural Philosopher

Depends on what you mean by romantic.

Most are into f****ng.

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Rod Speed

For some people, that is a component of romance.

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John Larkin

For plenty its the f****ng that they are into, no romance involved.

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Rod Speed

Sometimes dead coyotes are hung off a fence on that theory. Other things too.

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rbowman

Lots of cats can do that - I've seen it done many times.

When I was a kid, the family cat was a Siamese female who weighed something like 7 pounds. She could jump straight up six feet, and land gracefully on the top edge of a door left ajar.

She was hell on local birds and stable rats.

Joe Gwinn

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Joe Gwinn

Genetics isn't that simple.

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Cindy Hamilton

I think it is. We are now flooded ruled and shouted down by ArtStudents™

The economy and society will collapse under its own weight and there wont be any competent engineers left to fix it.

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The Natural Philosopher

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