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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
Yeah… goats will eat anything… and I mean ANYTHING.
Kinda like the chicken/turkey + some sort of profitable tree. I don’t really remember actually but the birds keep things weeded, fertilized, and debugged in a non computery sense.
It was a talking point used to prevent solar panels being installed somewhere by making people think farms not even on the same property would be ruined IIRC
Yea of course you could put a panel in many areas other than a farm. I’m guessing though they arent thinking in those terms. Yikes.
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People never cease to amaze me.
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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
I’m pretty sure that’s against the law and you could be arrested.
That’s against the law and I’m pretty sure you could be arrested (you mean?)
You all know this is irony right? It’s either out of Private Eye or Viz.
Pretty sure it’s Viz.
It’s 100% Letterbocks in Viz.
Thanks, I wasn’t sure, but that makes sense.
Definitely Viz dry humour vibes.
Reminds me of KenM
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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???
You’re one step away from reinventing hydro storage
Potential energy batteries are so fucking cool.
fwiw, chemical energy batteries (aka typical batteries) are also potential energy batteries.
I don’t know a simple or correct label that differentiates batteries whose potential energy is gravity-dependent from batteries whose potential energy is chemical-reaction-dependent, but the concept of gravity-based energy storage absolutely is cool as heck.
Yes, they are cool and we have lots of them. There was plenty of oil from the USSR but some rather forward-thinking measures were made during the Cold War to ensure our energy self-reliance in case of a global conflict. Odd that Poland doesn’t even though they have similar amounts of coal.
Yeah it’s weird, they are called gravity batteries but there’s options for other versions coming down the pipeline.
Yes, our country built them wherever we could. The one I visited uses a lake in what is now a first-class national park zone. Whoops, they are now only allowed to create a 4 cm peak-to-peak fluctuation of the water level.
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 is from Viz lol
First TopTip I’ve seen on Lemmy!
This man is an intellectual screw Einstein and bloody opiumhimer get this man on the world stage /s
Opiumheimer and Ensign
Opiumhimer 😂
opiumhammer
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.
Doing the real science here people 😂 💀
I saw a “job” posting for an engineer to develop that technology for someone. They were quite clear that they needed an out of the box thinker type, which made me wonder how many times this was explained to them.
I think about that posting sometimes and worry that he will just try it and the turbine will just fly off on the highway into the car behind his.
There was a Veritasium video like 2 years ago about wind powered vehicles. I guess it’s possible they saw a video like it. Physics can be very unintuitive sometimes, but, vehicles like sail boats do make sense.
It wasnt a land sail craft it was a fan that powered a car thus giving infinite energy. Also he was offering to pay in future stock.
You could probably apply the land sail craft trick to a car with a fan. The fan might need a special design, but it could potentially work the same way.
Go ahead but please please don’t go on a public road. There is enough death in the world, we don’t have to add to it when a blade flings off your turbine and takes out an innocent.
Ironically, that’s nonsense. Experimental cars on public roads barely cause any deadly accidents (under 1%), unlike distracted road-certified human drivers (over 80%); there is still twice as many births than deaths per year, predictions don’t expect there to be “enough” deaths for a stable population before 2085; and wind turbine blades already can change pitch without flying apart anyway. 🤷
I’m sorry, are you saying experimental cars cause almost 1% of road deaths, despite making up a tiny fraction of 1% of cars on the road? or is everything you just said made up and I majorly whooshed?
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.
Dunning Kruger curve in action
Yes, but not in the way you think it is.
I mean bro did admit he is only a butcher
