Wind turbines used to absorb a power surplus?

Mar 18, 2023 Last reply: 3 years ago 893 Replies

Of what? You should of had it checked for bird flu before it infected everything else.

A cat is simply not strong enough to do that. Try a horse.

I kill 2 mice per day with 7000 volts. Less messy than a cat.

Something wasn't lovely about him for you to want to do that.

No, you should do it per mass. The mass of a windmill is greater than a cat.

Wind turbines give electricity at a tenth of the price of gas/oil. And gas/oil will one day run out. I'm not a treehugger, but it makes sense to preserve stuff which is better suited to making plastic.

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Every man needs a hobby.

People in hospice facilities and nursing homes and in hospital beds can't care for pets. Lots of health statistics are non-causal correlations.

But walking dogs is good exercize. Nobody walks cats or goldfish.

It's crazy that a bank would be killed by the blunder of parking depositors' cash in treasury bonds. The Fed is run by dangerous power-hungry idiots aka economists.

One giant mistake was forcing interest rates to zero. Another was to make themselves into movie-star superheroes.

Funny how regulation precedes deregulation.

With a goofy plug on one end.

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Banks get wrecked by all kinds of different blunders. John Larkin doesn't seem to know much about any of them, but he exhibits the over-confidnece that seems to underlie most of them.,

They don't share John Larkin's bizarre delusions about how the economy works, so of course he thinks that they are idiots.

They've got a lot of power, so in theory they had to be power hungry to get there, but everybody likes being at the top of their profession, and that might have been a stronger motivation.

Central banks all around the world made the same mistake - if it was a mistake.

Did they do that? The newspapers do print their pictures from time to time, but actual movies stars and sports heroes get a lot more exposure.

I doubt if Janet Yellen's features are more recognisable than Meryl Streep's.

Australia distributes 220V AC. American's seem to use 110V around the house. It's a long way from Australia to Maryland so a higher voltage link would make more sense.

American and Australian mains plugs are different. Presumably John Larkin thinks that American plugs are non-goofy, but Disney - an American firm - has the copyright on Goofy. , so he's probably wrong.

Quite.

As a rule it's not unknown for outgoing governments who know they're not going to be re-elected to make decisions on capital projects like nuclear power generation. But for some reason this government are only making noises and no major commitment.

However, people like you are the main reason why we will continue to burn fossil fuels rather than cheap, clean and safe Nuclear Power.

You have a choice, save the planet or advocate the burning of fossil fuels instead of nuclear.

America has an obesity 'problem'. All that trudging means lots of exercise for the meter readers :-)

My electric meter hasn't been read for at least 10 years.

It was last changed from whirly-wheel to digital in 1997.

EDF Send me an email and I log into their website and put my readings in. I've been here for 30 years so they know how much leccy I use.

Ours is read daily over the air. I can log in and get my usage to date along with charges and estimated for the month.

I think it's partly genetic. Some people didn't evolve with ice cream and cheesecake and giant cheezy pizzas. Africans and Pacific Islanders tend to blimp out on a junk-food diet.

Some can and do.

That's what I meant with my last sentence.

A few do walk cats.

but, as the song said, "You can't take a goldfish for walks."

Nope, that has always been one of the less obvious risks.

It is what has ensured that we have not seen another great depression for almost 100 years. There were lots of them in the century before that.

That is what ensured that 2008 did not produce another great depression.

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