>> ^bareboards2:
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Because if this had been a fail, he would have been DEAD. Removed from the gene pool.


Yes, if he were 3 inches tall and riding inside of the remote control plane...

All you would need is one Airborne Wind Turbine attached to one of these.

Yay! Landfill and Oil problem solved.

>> ^joop:
But the plastic originally comes from oil... To turn it back into oil requires energy, which is typically the burning of other oil/petroleum products.

You'd surely end up with a net negative outcome from all this.

This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by ant.

>> ^Skeeve:
Interesting video but it is a dupe of a more accurately named video here: http://www.videosift.com/video/Buzzard-Gets-Clipped-By-Wind-Turbine



*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Buzzard-Gets-Clipped-By-Wind-Turbine

Interesting video but it is a dupe of a more accurately named video here: http://www.videosift.com/video/Buzzard-Gets-Clipped-By-Wind-Turbine

tell that to the banks, auto industry, agricultural industry, defense sector, pharmaceutical industry

Not helping your case. Government involvement has insulated these industries from the market, established unfair practices, weakened industry, and left them unable to compete in a competitive market. All govenment has done is establish a protectionsism racket that has artificially inflated costs and limited competition. Government has done these industries no favors. Every single one you mention I could go on at length in regards to how they have been severely damaged by government subsidies. Lather/rinse/repeating by establishing a false economy of 'green' energy is insipid.

he's actually bashing government money shuffle boondoggles in the vid itself

No the one I watched. He's proposing that we establish a faux industry. He wants car companies to stop making cars (which people actually pay real money for) and start making wind turbines & solar panels instead. This swap would have to be subsidized because no one is buying wind or solar because they are still too expensive and inefficient. It would be an economy entirely based on government subsudies. Now I'm 100% sure that idiots like Van Jones are excited by that prospect. Any American with two brain cells and a spine should be horrified by it.

Well, here are two videos of the same event from different angles, which were found not to be dupes:

Video 1
Video 2

However I'm not sure, in this case, if this is really something that needs to be seen from multiple angles. I'd probably call it a dupe.

>> ^jwray:
Actually, you probably need to change the circuitry that converted the electricity from 120V AC to whatever form is used in the motor. Rectifiers don't work in reverse, but transformers do.

As mentioned in the video, the presence of an AC motor in the wind turbine will generate AC current, just as your electrical sockets provide. There would have to be some gadgetry to match the phase of the wall power, and to not draw current from it. I'm also curious how it would affect your energy meter, whether it would show up as a reduction in energy usage.

So this one was struck by an INVISIBLE UFO!

>> ^DrPawn:
Cut the power lines from your house and buy a wind turbine. Obviously the reason you don't do so is you prefer cheaper power.
Nobody is stopping you.


I live by 3 mile Island. Wind turbines are stupidly expensive and you have to buy a converter box thing from the state to hook it up in your home, also stupidly expensive. You're right to guilt me a bit though I guess.

"Not to be a tree hugger, but we've been using coal since the middle ages. It's a filthy inefficient resource, you'd think we'd have upgraded since then."

Cut the power lines from your house and buy a wind turbine. Obviously the reason you don't do so is you prefer cheaper power.

Nobody is stopping you.

Ha, the irony. you tried to BAN me. so sad to see you're gone.

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*BAN!!!!!!

>> ^chtierna:
Cool idea, but how do they get it up there in the first place? I think storms could be handled by just taking it down and then sending it up again, but I dont see exactly how its brought up to 1000 feet in the first place.
[edit]: I guess they could use warm air or some gas lighter than air or whatever... Im feeling stupid now
It's inflated with helium, like a blimp. I wonder how often it will have to be refilled as the helium leaks out. Cool idea for a wind turbine, big, powerful, and with no need for any construction.

I could have done without the stupid text to speech program narrating. It pronounced the wind in "wind turbine" like a "wind up toy".

I drive by a lot of the big, regular wind turbines between Portland, OR and Spokane, WA, more of which go up every trip i make, it seems. They are rarely ever still. Not sure if that's just because we have more wind around here, but it seems to be anything but fraud from my angle.

Anyway, i'd love to have one of these for my home, but we use maybe $40 in electricity per month. Even if we pushed our usage up to $50 a month and our turbine generated 100% of our need, it could take 10 years to break even on the purchase and installation price of $6000. Maybe if we had an electric car, baseboard electric heating, and some sort of electric water heater...