Climate Change (oh no not again)

[John Watt]

I was just reading another article about windmill blades being built, and the extreme difficulties of design.
This is just another corporate decision to create technology problems that render wind power less than desirable.
Why are they being built like extended aircraft propellers?
Do you remember those whirly spinners when we were kids, for your bike or waving around?
The ones that were built like Mickey Mouse ears, round and stubby, something just a breath would make spin crazy?
Why aren't they designed like that? The ones across the lake in Buffalo hardly spin at all, looking like not at all sometimes.
The shorty, stubby blades would have less than a third of the circumference, good for birds.
What else can I say, unless there's some secret reason that design wouldn't work.
That's what the blades look like in the generators at Niagara Falls and the Titantic.
Such is the over-engineered technology of our lives. Spin that.

 

[JHC]

Bumping this thread with a quote from Comrade CD:
Quote:
Ultimately, this earth will be incinerated by the Sun...Just depends on how much more Helium ash is deposited on the Sun's core causing the Sun to expand and burn so much hotter...Some say 4 billion years from now - some say something else - It doesn't really matter 'cuz those left to witness the Sun's suface at the distance of the Moon will soon be nothing more than sub-atomic particles, if even that........Lets "migrate" this topic to anoher sub-fora, say, community chat with thread title "Solar Expansion/Overheating".


Any thoughts??

 

[John Watt]

I'm feeling a little expansion through solar heating right now,
uh, sitting with the sun shining through the window.
"Migrate" at will, Mumsignor JHC.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Whats worse is that the "Globaloney" is used as a pretext to levy even more taxes on citizens and countries through a funding mechanism thats called "emission rights". You pay, then you get to "emit". China is very wise to have cancelled the airplane orders they had with Airbus - That will teach the EU bureaucrats a lesson - Think of all those airplane-building jobs lost in Europe - The EU constituency's verdict will be swift........

 

[teddy]

John, if the blades are too efficient they will spin too fast and catch fire in high winds, as they did over here last winter. It is a useless idea commercially and solely designed to make money for certain parties. I believe both California and Hawaii both have acres of rotting wind farms which have proved worthless

teddy

 

[Corno Dolce]

Spot on, Teddles - On the access road to the South Point of the Big Island of Hawaii you'll see acres of windmills in varying states of total disrepair - Its an awful WASTE of taxpayer money.

I cal it FRAUD, WASTE, and ABUSE!!!!!!!!

 

[JHC]

I have spent about 3 hrs trying to find out if man made global warming is widely accepted and can find no definitive answer, to my mind man is unlikely to have any significant effect but of course must have some however small. As is the usual the more you find out about something the more you realise you don’t know.
Of interest:
The sun is getting hotter (fact)
The recent Japan quake caused a tilt in the world’s axis (fact)
Our climate has been changing since the world was formed (fact)
Volcanoes continue to erupt (fact)
The emission-trading scheme is a great way of making money (fact)
Here are a few more facts from online articles:

The climate of earth has fluctuated quite a bit over the last 4.6 billion years of our planet's history and it can be expected that the climate will continue to change. One of the most intriguing questions in earth science is whether the periods of ice ages is over or are we living in an "interglacial," or period of time between ice ages?

As only 11,000 years has passed since the last Ice Age, scientists can not be certain that we are indeed living in a post-glacial Holocene epoch instead of an interglacial period of the Pleistocene and thus due for another ice age in the geologic future. Some scientists believe that an increase in global temperature, as we are now experiencing, could be a sign of an impending ice age and could actually increase the amount of ice on the earth's surface.

And this is a closing statement from one article that I came across there are many more

Our short history on earth and our shorter record of the climate keeps us from fully understanding the implications of global warming. Without a doubt, an increase in the earth's temperature will have major consequences for all life on this planet.

I have not really achieved a thing

 

[Corno Dolce]

Since the whole racket of "globalwarming" is based on computer modeling which will never correctly predict what will happen and who or what has caused a future "situation", I will not waste my time or recommend anyone else to pay attention to the "prognosticants who manufacture the deceits and conceits of "globalwarming" behind the purple curtain".

 

[John Watt]

Scientists having been saying from the beginning that the Niagara Peninsula, in all the earth,
will receive the best benefits of global warming, and I can only be a witness to all of that.
In my lifetime, winter has gone from arriving, staying, and becoming spring, with lots of snow and ice.
People used to park their cars on the canal, ice fishing and driving along. Now it doesn't freeze over.
Please, if you have any doubts about global warming, don't.

The reason that wind farm in Hawaii looks so bad is because they dole my idea.

But, far worse than that, wait until you're looking at the scenery for real and the fish start flying out of the water at you,
trying to bite you,
and when you look online for Chinese fishermen, his four year old guitar playing daughter will make you feel suicidal.

 

[JHC]

and when you look online for Chinese fishermen, his four year old guitar playing daughter will make you feel suicidal.

Don't you mean "and when you look online for Chinese fishermen, his four year old daughter playing guitar will make you feel suicidal" ???

 

[John Watt]

Yes, JHC, that would be the proper and a far more literate use of font.
When I'm online looking at fishing lines and guitar strings, it can get a little messy, all those scales.
And rememberin'all those lines about being a rock star gets jammed up with my lines snagged by a rock.

Hey! I'm Canadian, and this almost snowless winter and advanced spring fever has everyone acting up.
When York Regional Council was dealing with a public tree already fallen by beavers this spring,
the councillor who stood to address this issue was met with hearty applause when he began,
"I like beavers".

 

[JHC]

Those pesky little Beavers, so they are to blame?

 

[teddy]

Have you heard what the bears are doing in the woods?

teddy

 

[JHC]

Have you heard what the bears are doing in the woods?

teddy

Having a pic nic???

 

[JHC]

Check this out http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17701677

 

[John Watt]

Thanks for that, JHC. Seeing the BBC domain was interesting too.

 

[teddy]

I am amazed Colin. When it comes to climate change and political correctness the BBC is one of the most biased organizations around. For then to admit they "might" be wrong is a first.

teddy

 

[Corno Dolce]

The BEEB(BBC) is the world's largest megaphone for British Govt. gone AWRY........

 

[teddy]

Trouble is CD the BBC are very left wing. They are probably very pleased with the coalition goverment because it contains the wishy washy PC liberals

teddy.

 

[Corno Dolce]

And the BeeB hates to be called "left wing" - I mean, come on already........The BeeB is often more like a gussied-up version of Pravda.