When stupid people think their opinions are as good as opinions from experts, the world edges closer to extinction.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
- Isaac Asimov
Or more succinctly; don't conflate your ignorance with someone else's knowledge.
The lesson to be learned here is that shitposting doesn't just happen online.
This person is almost certainly on a wind up.
Obviously… since it’s AC power it doesn’t matter what direction the powers going.
Some people just don’t know how stupid they sound…
That's not how that works, moron. Wind turbines only spin one way (see image above), so they clearly generate DC. Obviously, to convert it to AC, there are little hampsters in wheels switching the direction of the electricity back and forth.
Idiot.
Obviously, to convert it to AC, there are little hampsters in wheels switching the direction of the electricity back and forth.
Idiot.
Nice way to display your own stupidity. Everyone knows hamsters have fallen out of fashion for that like a hundred years ago. Gerbils is where it's at!
Mongrel.
Plus the static electricity in there stays in the same place either way
I don't get how spinning a fan to make wind helps with electricity. They're just big versions of the fan in my lounge room and that requires power to work. It's all a Bill Gates scheme for more money.
you'll have to take into account that this comes from the UK, where "The people in this country have had enough of experts"
No chance this was satire from a hilarious person?
The hilarious thing is, this letter is absolutely intended humourously. It's from the comic Viz, and the "Letterbocks" section regularly contains jokes and letters mocking the letters sent into newspapers.
This is only slightly less dumb than the people that think solar panels take sunlight away from plants.
I mean if the plant is under the solar panel they sure will block the sun.
Which is a great thing in places where the sun would otherwise scorch the earth not letting anything grow.
There are combined projects of "solar panels + grass + sheep". The grass helps retain water, lowering the temperature under the panel, which increases panel efficiency, and the sheep keep the grass from growing too tall, while feeding themselves.
It also seems like planting this way saves water, since less evaporates. And the farmers have an additional source of income so they are less dependent on the market. There is a good article at the BBC about a farmer being able to grow older, nicer but less desired lemons because of agri pv
Hilariously you have to be careful what animals you mix with agrivoltaics. Goats chew the cabling and try to climb onto the solar panels and cattle run up against the structures holding the panels to scratch itches
Shit man I am a top ten expert in an extremely niche area with my work cited thousands of times and I still feel like I don't know shit and will be in a state of constantly falling behind until I die.
By that logic, if he's butchering meat and cutting from a different direction, does it put the meat back on?
Sort of. You also have to hold the knife upside-down.
A good butcher would never cut from the wrong direction, bro. Against the grain.
Well yeah. If you cut the other way, it puts the meat back on.
Lotta smug people in here having a laugh at the obvious satire, but from a technical standpoint this can be a real problem.
Happened to me this AM -- had to eat cold bread after it untoasted itself, then get back in bed before my alarm clock unrung. I had stuff to do today
You all know this is irony right? It's either out of Private Eye or Viz.
The last decade has broken anyone's ability to separate sarcasm from reality.
A former high school science teacher in NC argued at a public hearing for a solar project that the solar panels would suck up all the energy from the sun and then all of their crops would die.
Science.
Teacher.
The fall of the Roman empire will be considered graceful compared to the impending collapse from the weight of our own collective stupidity.
COVID pandemic shattered my belief that we are an intelligent species and that we have made any progress in last 70 or so years. Now I firmly believe that the next natural disaster - be it pandemic or famine or any global crisis - will be our last one.
Definitely Viz dry humour vibes.
His great great great grandad thought the same about water wheels. What if the river started flowing the other way? Did anyone think of that???
When I was in high school we got to go on a field trip to a wind farm. They had one stopped on a kinda windy day so they could show us it starting up. Watching the blades rotate on their axis, then seeing this massive turbine slowly start to spin, was so fucking cool.
This man is an intellectual screw Einstein and bloody opiumhimer get this man on the world stage /s
This man has a point. It would be much more effective if the wind is always blowing into the turbines. That sounds impossible, but you could simply place the turbine on a car. Whenever driving, there is lots of wind, and it always comes from the front of the car (unless you put the car in reverse, but that is not a state that the car is in for a long time).
/s (although I have had to genuinly explain to people why this does not charge the battery of an electric vehicle).
This is how we know the earth is flat. If it's round, the earth would spin and the turbines would catch the wind and spin. I've tested this extensively by holding pinwheels while spinning in a roller chair until I blow chunks. Since the turbines stop sometimes, it's clearly a spirit on the edge of the map, blowing until he takes another breath.
I'm telling you, everything about my theory blows.
The trick is to give and take exactly 50% of the wind energy. That way, you can set up an entropy rig and capture that energy.
And you must remember not to take the best wind, you need to leave the best wind alone so it can make the next generation stronger.
When the wind blows the other way, you are supposed to plug all your appliances in backwards to trick the power grid into going the right direction again. Duh.
I'm only an actress and even I managed to figure it out, who needs butchers for wind turbines anyways.
Genius
The people who use the word boffin are invariably thick cunts.
I mean bro did admit he is only a butcher
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