But... but... Republicans will say they look ugly under the ocean! Just like Trump said Wind mills are eyesores!

Back to the science of it. I wonder how much energy these oscillating plates can generate Wh? Their movements don't seem to be that much. Factor in the construction cost, damage/maintenance from salt water erosion, large fish bumping into it, the weather, etc. It might be feasible for small island communities/nations, but countries with a large landmass to coastal access ratio... its contribution to the overall energy sector might not be that significant. But every little bit of renewable, environmental risk-free energy helps, so, good stuff!

>> ^Fantomas:

Where does wind come from?
That's easy, it's caused by trees waving.


I think Morbo said it best:

http://videosift.com/video/Futurama-Wind-mills-do-not-work-that-way-Goodnight

The way the common sense goes in my head is something like this:

1) Could I replace the original with this clip and keep the same tags, title etc?
2) Is the meaning in the two clips, the essence, the same or not?

If both are "yes", then it's clearly dupe.

When it's something like two angles of the same event, I remember two clips of a wind mill breaking in a storm, then I think they both add to each other, and they should both stay.

And, if in doubt, both stay.

I responded to your thread reply. But to add onto you an other thought, the obvious lagging technology technologically wise are batteries. We can produce massive amounts of energy but we're terrible at holding and storing that power for future use through electricity. We don't have battery banks to store electricity from wind mills and solar which would make them a constant supplier rather than an erratic one. Anyway, I look forward to you're next comment.

In reply to this comment by budzos:
Check my thread reply, wonder if you've heard about it.

In reply to this comment by geo321:
yeah, There hasn't been a big jump in battery technology for a long time. If that happened it would be a real game changer.>> ^budzos:
Solar is the energy of the future. Storage is the main problem right now.

[wind noises]

If I could sample the wind, I would loop it

And let my life poem flow over its sacred beats.

Using Kilimanjaro as my djembe I would drum rainbows out of the moonlight and use them as hooks in between verses; verses of little girls spinning ropes in opposite directions, waiting for an opening to jump in.

As the world turns, double dutch, I jump, double time over oceans and back; the water waves and I wave back.

Rippling echoes of "sunshii-ii-iine" - folks get ground in the "sunshii-ii-iine."

But the lightning flaaash three times and its time for the chorus which includes corn bread, candy yams, and all that good stuff, which black folks on Saturn are made of.

As we approach the second verse the roots of trees are plucked from bass lines, which resonate and shake the earth -- devastating everything that's not built in harmony in it.

The second verse is a journey through the ruins of ruined souls; that valued all that was nothing, and nothing of the all-knowing ever flowing wind - which is the undercurrent of this current blowing, the funky drummer from here to eternity.

But even as ruined souls backspin, the wind mills forward and rocks steady 'till the sun hits the fader and the chorus kicks in; then the moon yells "Go!" and we all backspin -- ZULU! As the moonlight shines true blue silvery indigo light my spirit takes flight - because the moonlight is my indigo; indigo ON, to the break of dawn, I rock rock steady steady 'till the early morn, word is bond I'm talking about seeing your nature in nature innate in your nature - New York states of mind did not create ya.

Not until you listen to Rakim on a rocky mountain top have you heard hip-hop.

Extract the urban element that created it and let an open wide countryside let us illustrate it.

Riding in a freight train listening to Coltrane and my reality went insane and I think I saw Jesus; he was playing hop-scotch with Betty Carter who was cursing him out in a scat-like-gibberish for not saying "Butterfingers."

And like the grains of sand, like the seeds of time, the pains of Man, the frames of mind which built these frames which is the structure of my urban superstructure. The trains and planes can corrupt and obstruct your train of thought so that you forget how to walk through the woods which ain't good, 'cause if you never walked through the trees listening to 'Nobody Beats The Biz' you ain't never heard hip-hop.. and you don't stop, and you don't stop, and you don't...

STOP lettin' cities define you, confine you to that which is cement and brick.

We are not a hard peoples, our domes have been crowned with the likes of steeples. That which is our being soars with the eagles, and the Jonathon Livingston seagulls - Yes - I got wings, you got wings, we all got to got wings!

So let's widen the circumference of our nest, and escape this urban incubator -

You see, the wind plays the world like an instrument; blows through trees like flutes but trees don't grow in cement. And as heartbeats bring percussion, fallen trees bring repercussions; cities play upon our souls like broken drums, we drum the essence of creation from city slums - but city slums mute our drums and our drums become humdrum, 'cause city slums have never been where our drums are from - just the place where our daughters and sons become, off-beat heartbeats, slaves to city streets, where hearts get broken and heart beats stop - broken heart beats become break beats for niggas to rhyme on top, but they rhyme about... NOTHIN'.

You don't got nothin' to rhyme about 'cause you've never seen the moon, your styles can't be universal if you're not in tune, with the... [wind noises]

>> ^Payback:
>> ^furrycloud:
>> ^alizarin:
Give it time. He'll end up hydroplaning into the wall eventually if he doesn't crack his engine block from water spray first.

Hydroplaning does not work like that! Goodnight!!

Yeah, it does. Hydroplaning is where your tire "floats" along the surface of the water on the road. Your tires no longer have any grip on the road. It gets you into a skid, which on wet pavement is unlikely to end well. Many people have hit walls and other objects due to hyrdroplaning.
I think you are mixing up hydroplaning and plowing. Plowing through a puddle merely slows you down, hydroplaning skips across the top of the puddle.


Oh trust me, I know about hydroplaning. Refer to this video for more information: http://www.videosift.com/video/Futurama-Wind-mills-do-not-work-that-way-Goodnight

That's where you're wrong. We're about quantity. Surely there must be an animal fart or exploding wind mill you can plug into your queue in the mean time.

In reply to this comment by critttter:
Hey, I've been working like a sharecropper's mule. Gots to afford all my Mac products...
It bothers me that my queue is empty, but I have a couple more weeks of long, long work days, and I don't like to post things just to post things. We're about quality here, right?

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
I see you're a charter member, yet not a single video in your queue? What gives?

BTW, I see you recruited DFT to downvote my 'poophead' comment. If it weren't for my rheumytism I'd give you what fer, you despicable critttter!

[edit] the other video was a close up of just the turbine while imploding.

This video offers a perspective from far away (long shot) of the whole wind mill as it implodes as the blades and turbine tumble to and impact the ground. So while a small addition, I would argue that it offers something that the other video does not. In addition this wide shot offers and additional perspective of what happens to the blades as they fly out of view in the other video.