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Oh, that's funny. Can't drill for oil, and wind energy isn't cost effective. What's next? Foot pedaled cars?
by gsibble 4y ago
Oh, that's funny. Can't drill for oil, and wind energy isn't cost effective. What's next? Foot pedaled cars?
- throwayyy479087 4y agoYou're going to be shocked that I peddled to work today, and saw a ton of deliveries done by people peddling!
- tuatoru 4y ago* pedaled
- 42e6e8c8-f7b8-4 4y agoFreudian slip.
- cm42 4y agoThe operative word here is onshore, for a variety of reasons, like the absence of road/tunnel/bridge permits, neighborhood Karen councils and local politicians, having to manage multiple lease arrangements, etc, etc. I read an industry article mid-COVID that claimed the biggest barrier to offshore right now was the lack of ships to install them - alleviated somewhat by the introduction of floating offshore rigs, like these: https://www.x1wind.com/ https://www.x1wind.com/ So yeah, it's gotta be way cheaper to drop a couple of those in the ocean than truck towers out to middle-of-nowheresville or digging a foundation at the bottom of the ocean or whatever.
- tuatoru 4y agoThanks for that X1Wind tetrahedron link - I saw a similar one recently that used a truncated pyramid construction, with the blades rotating between the front and back pairs of legs. Interestingly with these size is not the be-all and end-all. If you make them so that they fit in the average port (towed by an average pair of tugs), the range of locations where they can be installed increases a lot. As does the availability of ships usable for the install.
- recursive 4y ago> Foot pedaled cars? These have been around longer than fossil fuel powered ones. They're called bikes.