Here's one: strap a slice of toast to the back of a cat, butter side up, pick up the cat, then drop it. The toast will exert a force of landing butter side down while the cat will exert an equal and opposite force of landing on its feet, creating a perpetual spinning motion which may then be harnessed it as energy.
Give that man a Nobel! Oh, alright, give him a beer. But I already see a few kinks to work out. 1) No wheat harvest = limited amount of toast. 2) The cat. We have an almost limitless supply but must they be long-haired for the proper level of static? Also, some cat-lovers (yes, they exist) may object.
These comment sections add to my understanding of the world. First, I see a post that causes a sincere laugh moment. Then, out of the blue, comes a YouTube on the same point.
May I support grant funding for attaching collection devices to political oral orifices. Kinda like a "scream extractor" from Monster's Inc, but perhaps make it a dual use device - Collect hot air AND screams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIH8OLT7XWA
I know you might say that, but I will say what I know we will all say, and I know that you will say what I believe we will all say, when we have said that.
The EU is also taking gas from Azerbaijan, which gave its petro dictator Iliev the leverage to invade Armenia a few days ago. As was the case a century ago, the Armenian flag does not get added to The Current Thing loyalty card because the elites have no economic interests there.
There was a time when I thought educated people were smart and politicians were at least clever.
I'm really glad I spent all those potential tuition costs (public colleges though, no high aspirations from me) on the remainders bins in the old Barnes and Noble instead. Clever girl, I, if I do say so myself.
Here is the film to show you how it works. This is brilliant and absolutely hilarious. "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million that's the bank's problem." - J. Paul Getty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V9ZhpITi2o
What is funny is our electric company wanted us to pay something or the other -- we live on a hydroelectric lake, so not sure what exactly, hubby just told me we owed ---- and they DEMANDED we pay electronically. So, I, of course, sent them a check. I can't wait to find out what they'll do now. Next will be a box of pennies.
Ha ha--these are the little wrenches we throw in the machine when we can. My gym kept deducting payment for services un-rendered thanks to the lockdowns and so we blocked that and a heated email exchange ensued. Very quickly it became clear that I no longer wanted to do business with this company, contract or no contract. After stating this and having it confirmed by email, they tried to insist I send a 15 euro registered letter for administration purposes. We replied: No thanks, we have printed the email in which you acknowledge the receipt of my termination request, that ought to be enough for court. They never used the reply function after that in an effort to cover their tracks. I'd so much rather that we just treat each other respectfully, but might as well have a little fun when that's not an option!
Definitely a superior way to live if you can manage it! Do you just carry around wads of cash for deposits?? At least we are living debt free which is a huge weight off my mind since the government is basically discussing an end to property rights here.
So my extremely Sciency son has also convinced me that nuclear is an amazing option. He told me that the amount of waste that is produced is so minimal and as you stated in your previous stack they’ve made many upgrades to improve safety in general.
However, I have PV panels on my home and during the summer when the sun is shining bright and I’m running my air conditioner they seem to be amazing. You are right that they are not as good in the winter but then I have gas heat coming into my home. So why can’t we have both and just reduce our fossil fuel use. It seems to me if we have multiple sources of energy then you don’t have a monopoly and people can’t just monkey with the price of it at the drop of a hat!
You can have both, but remember that the solar panels weren't free, and they wouldn't be at all economic if the government wasn't interfering in the market. If electricity was a free market, you'd be paying about $0.10/kWh, and you'd never pay back the installation cost of the solar.
On the other hand, I wish I had some solar on my roof and batteries in the garage for when the inevitable blackouts come. Again, it's not economic...but it's becoming a necessity to be prepared for our "carbon-free" future.
And people are always like well it takes so much fossil fuel to make your panels but it takes fossil fuels to do everything we need to do to get fossil fuels.
I just don’t understand how the fossil fuels can be as cheap as they are we have to get them out of the earth refine them ship them everywhere over and over and over again. My solar panels are there for 30 years.
Before Sweden joined the EU and the european power (electricity) market, we were basically energy independent thanks to plentiful hydro and 12 nuclear reactors. Electricity was dirt cheap, especially for industry and businesses. Because it was a national asset and a national interest, being set up to favou the nation and her people, and no one else.
But that was before Friedmanian and Hayekian neoliberalist ideas were put into practice.
Now, senior citizens on basic pension can't afford to shower daily. Thanks to neoliberal economic policy of privatisation (should be called privation and piracy), the EUSSR, and the capitalist ethos of profit over humanity.
I know, we'll all stand in a circle with cats claws latched into the back of the person in front, and we rub our balloon on the fur of the cat we're holding.
Plenty of power for the months at a time the midnight sun shines in the summer, when you don't need it, allowing you to crow about "zero emissions", and then being completely befuddled when the sun goes down for the winter and everybody freezes to death in the dark since you shut down the oil fields.
Here's one: strap a slice of toast to the back of a cat, butter side up, pick up the cat, then drop it. The toast will exert a force of landing butter side down while the cat will exert an equal and opposite force of landing on its feet, creating a perpetual spinning motion which may then be harnessed it as energy.
reported for hate speech.
You'll never take me alive!
"your terms are acceptable," said the highly evolved ambush hunter.
Oh look, a laser dot...😂
🚨 🚨 🚨
You guys made my day!
Yes!!! This is EXACTLY why I read the comments.
OP cracked me up!!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8yW5cyXXRc
dang it works! Just follow the science.
Give that man a Nobel! Oh, alright, give him a beer. But I already see a few kinks to work out. 1) No wheat harvest = limited amount of toast. 2) The cat. We have an almost limitless supply but must they be long-haired for the proper level of static? Also, some cat-lovers (yes, they exist) may object.
These comment sections add to my understanding of the world. First, I see a post that causes a sincere laugh moment. Then, out of the blue, comes a YouTube on the same point.
Amazing!
😂😂
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 God bless you for that laugh/mind picture. That's the most I've laughed in a week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XpQ6MehInc
Watch the experiment preformed... here....
For Gato's next trick, watch him make electricity from wind that is generated by a wind turbine.
https://youtu.be/rAgxb92a2Kc
This is a case where the language barrier should just be ignored.
The Klingon audio dialogue actually makes it seem plausible!
Hey!!! That is Dutch. It is a really easy language to learn.
Muuuuch easier that German
This is too funny😂🤣🤣
No translation needed! Hilarious!
32 Winden!!!!!
Hilarious.
May I support grant funding for attaching collection devices to political oral orifices. Kinda like a "scream extractor" from Monster's Inc, but perhaps make it a dual use device - Collect hot air AND screams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIH8OLT7XWA
Given the sheer volume of highly combustible gas involved, do make sure you have adequate safety protocols in place, or innocents might get torched:
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6B8tPuW7TwQ/SzBkUZOUtQI/AAAAAAAAOyY/lFOV5DUINjI/w1200-h630-p-k-nu/cofasp.jpg
I have a lot of wind.
Maybe they should be importing beans instead of electricity!
You too?
Have I got a car for you!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcrWxjJg664
Which is generated by wind, which is generated by a wind turbine...
Are you Kamala’s secret speech writer!?
I know you might say that, but I will say what I know we will all say, and I know that you will say what I believe we will all say, when we have said that.
Had you cackled, I’d have been fully convinced you were Veep!
I’ll let you go take the shower you likely feel you need.
Hey, thanks. Channeling Kamala - it's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it.
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Or he could plug in the turbine and watch it make wind.
The EU is also taking gas from Azerbaijan, which gave its petro dictator Iliev the leverage to invade Armenia a few days ago. As was the case a century ago, the Armenian flag does not get added to The Current Thing loyalty card because the elites have no economic interests there.
People need to stop calling them elites cos it just increases their egos and it does nothing for their stupidity
I like "parasites". Because science.
Because facts.
Right?! 😉
Counterpoint (because I'm contrarian by nature):
Calling them elites feeds their hubris, and hubris is but a harbinger for Nemesis.
Stupids is much more fitting.
I call them pariahs
Bloodsuckers,
Literally vampires.
Probably really true. 😳
You may spoken too soon Yuri 😱
There was a time when I thought educated people were smart and politicians were at least clever.
I'm really glad I spent all those potential tuition costs (public colleges though, no high aspirations from me) on the remainders bins in the old Barnes and Noble instead. Clever girl, I, if I do say so myself.
Just wait until Peter finds out Paul lost all his money in a robbery.
Will they force us to be outside so that we don’t use tv, lights and stuff? Inverse Lockdown! Boom!
As long as we have a good excuse to cut the digital learning I’m super down.
Yes, this has been proven to work, like making a credit card payment with another card.
Here is the film to show you how it works. This is brilliant and absolutely hilarious. "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million that's the bank's problem." - J. Paul Getty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V9ZhpITi2o
Especially if you're a big bank, then you get a tax-funded bail-out eventually.
Wait, what? That DOESN'T work?
👌🏻
I have never understood having more than one which is all I have ever had because otherwise no one will rent you stuff.
I've done fine without a credit card (26 years) or a cell phone (never). No debt, either. Added bonus: They will have a very hard time finding me.
What is funny is our electric company wanted us to pay something or the other -- we live on a hydroelectric lake, so not sure what exactly, hubby just told me we owed ---- and they DEMANDED we pay electronically. So, I, of course, sent them a check. I can't wait to find out what they'll do now. Next will be a box of pennies.
Ha ha--these are the little wrenches we throw in the machine when we can. My gym kept deducting payment for services un-rendered thanks to the lockdowns and so we blocked that and a heated email exchange ensued. Very quickly it became clear that I no longer wanted to do business with this company, contract or no contract. After stating this and having it confirmed by email, they tried to insist I send a 15 euro registered letter for administration purposes. We replied: No thanks, we have printed the email in which you acknowledge the receipt of my termination request, that ought to be enough for court. They never used the reply function after that in an effort to cover their tracks. I'd so much rather that we just treat each other respectfully, but might as well have a little fun when that's not an option!
Well done!
Brilliant!
Definitely a superior way to live if you can manage it! Do you just carry around wads of cash for deposits?? At least we are living debt free which is a huge weight off my mind since the government is basically discussing an end to property rights here.
Hilarious!
Sounds like a deus ex machina pulling the old energy ex nihilo ad infinitum.
I love it when you talk dirty. Gets me all "amped" up. He he he...see what I did there..."amped" up???
You sound positively charged up—be careful not to short-circuit yourself! 😆
I'm shocked at you both!
Et tu Keahi?
🤣
I'm pulling the plug on this right now!
Somebody has to flip the switch!
🤦♂️ What have I done?
😂 You have opened Pundora’s box!
Ohm my goodness!
😹
Yep, it was a word crime indeed.
Punnishable by the electric chair, but thank goodness I have the power to pardon you.
Ok, this is spiraling out of control.
Breathe.
😆 Yeah, I'd better unplug.
Don't you mean "Watt have I done?"?
😹
Make the bad man stop.
Ohm my God!! Too funny!
Too much mountain dew.
I'm like a spider monkey on crack...🐶
So my extremely Sciency son has also convinced me that nuclear is an amazing option. He told me that the amount of waste that is produced is so minimal and as you stated in your previous stack they’ve made many upgrades to improve safety in general.
However, I have PV panels on my home and during the summer when the sun is shining bright and I’m running my air conditioner they seem to be amazing. You are right that they are not as good in the winter but then I have gas heat coming into my home. So why can’t we have both and just reduce our fossil fuel use. It seems to me if we have multiple sources of energy then you don’t have a monopoly and people can’t just monkey with the price of it at the drop of a hat!
You can have both, but remember that the solar panels weren't free, and they wouldn't be at all economic if the government wasn't interfering in the market. If electricity was a free market, you'd be paying about $0.10/kWh, and you'd never pay back the installation cost of the solar.
On the other hand, I wish I had some solar on my roof and batteries in the garage for when the inevitable blackouts come. Again, it's not economic...but it's becoming a necessity to be prepared for our "carbon-free" future.
And people are always like well it takes so much fossil fuel to make your panels but it takes fossil fuels to do everything we need to do to get fossil fuels.
I just don’t understand how the fossil fuels can be as cheap as they are we have to get them out of the earth refine them ship them everywhere over and over and over again. My solar panels are there for 30 years.
Available energy density. Petroleum wins.
That would make too much sense! C'mon!
Want to hear something funny?
Before Sweden joined the EU and the european power (electricity) market, we were basically energy independent thanks to plentiful hydro and 12 nuclear reactors. Electricity was dirt cheap, especially for industry and businesses. Because it was a national asset and a national interest, being set up to favou the nation and her people, and no one else.
But that was before Friedmanian and Hayekian neoliberalist ideas were put into practice.
Now, senior citizens on basic pension can't afford to shower daily. Thanks to neoliberal economic policy of privatisation (should be called privation and piracy), the EUSSR, and the capitalist ethos of profit over humanity.
I know, we'll all stand in a circle with cats claws latched into the back of the person in front, and we rub our balloon on the fur of the cat we're holding.
Dang gato, 7421 kittenpatents™? That's some bragging rights for sure...
Kitty gettin' busy.
It’s renewable! It’s portable! It’s environmentally friendly!
Great invention! Why didn't I think about it before? Make sure the switch is "on"; otherwise it doesn't work.
And better yet, it goes up to "Eleven"!!
And both are planning on supplementing their electricity needs from solyndra solar farms in Barrow, Alaska.
That is the perfect progressive power plan!
Plenty of power for the months at a time the midnight sun shines in the summer, when you don't need it, allowing you to crow about "zero emissions", and then being completely befuddled when the sun goes down for the winter and everybody freezes to death in the dark since you shut down the oil fields.
I was just talking to a Finnish woman about solar energy in Finland. She was so excited about the new technology I just let her babble.
You know what they call EV drivers in Alaska?
Bearcicles.
Cabin fever. The Finns know all about it. That's why they more or less invented the cell phone (Nokia).
Solyndra? Risen from the ashes of their scandal with Obama? My, my, how quickly we forget.
"Woopie doopie! "You-um genius!". Go Go Gophers.