Reply to: Holland dumps wind

[EternalOptimist]

Right, I see. That definitely sounds like a convincing reason for us to abandon wind farms then.

Wait! What about "The Towers Of Blong" by Dave K. Grunk? In that one, you will remember, a race of aliens build a few wind farms in sensible places and generate lots of electricity, thus saving them from the massive polution which had been about to overwhelm them.

Unfortunately, a load of monkeys then take over and it turns out it was Earth all along, but that happens much later and isn't related to the wind farms.

Good point. I reckon they should get all of the container ships that provide our food and western lifestyle, remove the engines and put masts and sails on them..
think of the job creation and the green-ness. oh the green-ness.

[dang65]

It's about a desert planet, totally dead.

The population had an energy crisis that they tried to solve with the alien equivalent of the windmill.

Thus chopping down all the trees, destroying the entire ecology & making themselves extinct.

Right, I see. That definitely sounds like a convincing reason for us to abandon wind farms then.

Wait! What about "The Towers Of Blong" by Dave K. Grunk? In that one, you will remember, a race of aliens build a few wind farms in sensible places and generate lots of electricity, thus saving them from the massive polution which had been about to overwhelm them.

Unfortunately, a load of monkeys then take over and it turns out it was Earth all along, but that happens much later and isn't related to the wind farms.

[Ignis Fatuus]

It's about a desert planet, totally dead.

The population had an energy crisis that they tried to solve with the alien equivalent of the windmill.

Thus chopping down all the trees, destroying the entire ecology & making themselves extinct.

Don't worry. Fritz will fix it.

[BlasterBates]

A bit like chopping down the rain forests to grow biodiesel.

[dang65]

"The Subways of Tazoo" - Colin Kapp - coming to a little blue planet near you sometime soon.

I've googled "The Subways of Tazoo" and can see several references to it being a story by Colin Kapp, but I can't find any synopsis of the story itself at all, so I've absolutely no idea what the reference is supposed to mean in this context.

Is it a clever Sci-Fi parody about future people building wind farms or something?

[BlasterBates]

79 huge wind turbines.....

I'm glad I don't live there. Poor sods.

[zeitghost]

"The Subways of Tazoo" - Colin Kapp - coming to a little blue planet near you sometime soon.

And here's a prime example:

Council votes not to object to wind farm - Neath - Local Welsh News - News - WalesOnline

I've googled "The Subways of Tazoo" and can see several references to it being a story by Colin Kapp, but I can't find any synopsis of the story itself at all, so I've absolutely no idea what the reference is supposed to mean in this context.

Is it a clever Sci-Fi parody about future people building wind farms or something?

It's about a desert planet, totally dead.

The population had an energy crisis that they tried to solve with the alien equivalent of the windmill.

Thus chopping down all the trees, destroying the entire ecology & making themselves extinct.

A bit like chopping down the rain forests to grow biodiesel.

Yes.

To build piezoelectric harps.

Or in the Terran case: windmills.

[RichardCranium]

The environmental protection agency in the USA have ruled that greenhouse gasses are a pollutant that will kill people so they must be curbed by law.

Does the head of the EPA walk, cycle or canoe everywhere and avoid using lekky breathe out?

She should be arrested using her own criteria

FTFY

[EternalOptimist]

I take you it all back. You know when I disputed you were world class? I was wrong.
You are a prize, first-rate, world class moron.

get out of your car and walk, you snot gobbling, turd burgling, anally retentive hypocrite

and stop breathing too. murderer

[sasguru]

Oh aye. I get yopu point. Holland is making money out of manufacturing things that dont do any good, because some zealots persuade the powers that be to subsidise it based on some crazy world view.

The environmental protection agency in the USA have ruled that greenhouse gasses are a pollutant that will kill people so they must be curbed by law. (just like smokey chimneys or lead in paint were oulawed)
Does the head of the EPA walk , cycle or canoe everywhere and avoid using lekky ?

no. but she should be arrested using her own criteria

I take you it all back. You know when I disputed you were world class? I was wrong.
You are a prize, first-rate, world class moron.

[EternalOptimist]

Not so fast, EO. I'm not saying it's environmental madness, but economic folly to destroy the home market and thereby the R&D capacity of an industry that's making money for Holland.

Oh aye. I get yopu point. Holland is making money out of manufacturing things that dont do any good, because some zealots persuade the powers that be to subsidise it based on some crazy world view.

The environmental protection agency in the USA have ruled that greenhouse gasses are a pollutant that will kill people so they must be curbed by law. (just like smokey chimneys or lead in paint were oulawed)
Does the head of the EPA walk , cycle or canoe everywhere and avoid using lekky ?

no. but she should be arrested using her own criteria

[doodab]

I think you saw it in Holland.

I think I did.

[Mich the Tester]

I think I've seen the stage show.

I think you saw it in Holland.

[doodab]

I think I've seen that vid too.

I think I've seen the stage show.

[Mich the Tester]

I thought Holland only floods when someone pulls their fist out of the dyke

ftfy