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I’ma little disappointed you had the opportunity to fix the click bait video title and didn’t.
I had to do a double take on the publication. Definitely not the article I expected to see in the National Review but, still, it does put a smile on my face.
I think I’m okay with it being referred to as “the social media network formerly known as Twitter” from here on out.
You’re getting shit on for asking questions, but these articles seem to bring out the worst in armchair engineers.
It’s worth remembering that wind is the result of solar flux adding energy to our atmosphere. From a practical perspective, we can’t deplete the energy as it gets added constantly no matter what we do. Putting big turbines in the wind does alter local flow profiles but, again from a practical perspective, the mass fraction of air flow modified is minuscule. Further, part if the design of wind farms includes making sure that the turbines stay out of each other’s wake, sort of like keeping solar panels on a solar farm from being in the shadow of another panel.
To bring solar into it again, the concern about stopping the wind is like the concern for overheating the planet by putting up to many solar panels. You see, solar panels have a higher albedo (absorption) of solar radiation than the planet, on average. It’s like pavement vs a gravel road - the pavement is going to heat up more. If you run the numbers, though, the effect is negligible, more like adding 1 dark rock out of every 1000 to the gravel road.
We use, worldwide, something like 1/10,000th of the solar energy that falls on earth. It’s often worthwhile to ask questions like yours, even if only to offer a vehicle for explaining why and how engineers and scientists have had the same questions and found the answers.
Stay curious, friend.
you build your wife with coconuts
I vote we skip any more discussion about how we’re going to be using coconuts on this island.
Those are the worst looking d20s I’ve ever seen.
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I can understand that. We tend to dehumanize our political villains. I did a double take when I saw it the first time and this would scare me if it happened to my parents.
The empathy was short lived, though. The man has caused suffering and used his position to damage the lives of people I love. He will rot in hell, but I’m getting a little kick out of him rotting while he’s still alive and I wish him a painful and humiliating end to his life if it is at all possible.
Oh, we broke up the big telecom in the 80s. But the behemoths which arose from those (and there were only 2 or 3 after two decades of mergers) and the cable TV companies which "compete" with them for data customers now are effectively regional monopolies anyway. Once a house has a provider, nobody else is willing to spend the money on fiber in the ground to compete. It's not even regional, really, but community to community or apartment building to apartment building (some of which have kick back deals to the landlord for exclusive service access to all the units). My neighborhood is less than 2km from a very large university with probably a Tb of connectivity. Everyone in my neighborhood has access to Comcast/Xfinity which, until last year ranged from 25/2 to 300/15 service, or Verizon DSL at 7.5Mb/768kbps speeds. There is fiber 300m from my house. I've contacted the fiber provider and talked with the CEO. He said they intend to do the whole town, except the captured apartments, but our neighborhood will be last if it ever gets done at all because the cost to install is higher than the newer and more dense neighborhoods.
If I were European, I’d be very angry right now. Actually, I’m angry anyway…but there’s less that I can do as an American.
Though I do have an avenue as a Virginian, its not one where I control the enforcement. I would have to get my corporate bootlicking Attorney General to do something about it, and that will never happen.
This should be a rule in many communities- if the article title is click bait or intentionally obtuse, the post title must indicate that actual context of the article or video.
I know there are subs that require the title be identical so as to avoid editorializing, but fixing a title should really be mandatory.