His entire twitter page is like this, OLD GOOD NEW BAD, of course only highlighting eurocentric architecture, god forbid he praises african architecture from the precolonial era. Oh and he throws bits of "RAISE A WHITE FAMILY" stuff around, eh, just another fash we should be lining up against the wall in minecraft.
He's like some "advisor" for "social media entrepeneurs" as well
I love how just merely having a blue checkmark basically tells me all of this without having to check out his page.
I'm sure he drives a new pickup, instead of retvrning to tradition and buying a ModelT.
To be fair, in a lot of ways, cars from the past are better than cars now.
Wind turbines generate electricity instead of using wind power to mill grain, which necessitates a different design
Also we have new developments in material science and engineering over the last, oh, 800 years.
300m tall floating wooden Dutch style windmill with 3 MW of power running through it would be a pretty solid way to spit in the face of God tbf
NFT guys getting confused when they have bushels of flour instead of electricity.
We stopped building windmills like that because old Spanish men keep trying to fight them.
...M8, I think we just found an antidote to these Dutch memes
It's all fun and dementia addled games until the Dutch build a windmill Gundam
I'm like not opposes to making wind generators look like grain mills, but surely you've got to understand it would be a huge investment for like some cosmetic differences
Ah but what if we made each one contain 2 $500 a night Airbnb's
no i literally agree they should use organic materials in windmills, its fucking maddening how our 'get off fossil fuel' devices are made out of petroleum plastics
don't need them to be whole ass buildings if you're not milling anything though lol
its fucking maddening how our ‘get off fossil fuel’ devices are made out of petroleum plastics
Using a light durable material to create blades with a low incident of inertia in order to generate cheap renewable electricity is one of the few instances behind which I can support mass application of plastics.
There are new designs that can be recycled:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90674645/this-giant-wind-turbine-blade-can-be-recycled
And old blades can be reused to make pedestrian bridges, etc:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90727497/in-ireland-old-wind-turbine-blades-are-being-used-to-build-bridges
But neither is happening at a large scale
Whats the viability of bio plastics in this regard? Like im not talking economic feasibility but like from an engineering standpoint
If I had to take a wild guess, I'd say they're brittler or heavier or both.
Early wind turbines were made of aluminum, similar to aircraft wings of the time, so in theory they were longer-lasting and more recyclable. But they switched to composite materials because they're lighter and stronger, same reason airplane wings are switching to composites.
And if you want you wind mills to generate more then a few watts of energy?
Windmill structure is fine, but the blades are basically just that much trash after 25 years, PVC and fiberglass and epoxy. Switching to laminated wood would make it truly renewable.
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/06/wooden-wind-turbines.html
Switching to laminated wood would make it truly renewable.
5-over-1s, but they're windmills
There are companies now that chip them up and use them for filler in concrete
Wouldn't wooden blades be much less efficient at energy generation?
Not that much, plus there's a lot less embodied energy in it and it can be easily converted into permanently sequestered carbon.
This thread made me go on a research tangent about why new windmills have 3 blades, even though the old ones that milled flour had 4. It's because less blades means less drag, but 1 or two blades would be too unbalanced and vibrate too much.
Then I found out about bladeless turbines which are just giant vibrators lol.
Imagine seeing a bunch of giant vibrators on a countryside somewhere. Clearly the retvrn guy is wrong, the future of wind turbines could be pretty goofy and fun.
brb, commissioning a solar-punk vista with giant, vibrating dil- ah, turbines
I feel compelled to point out that the wind farm shown is at the end of its life and was probably built in the 90’s. Lattice towers haven’t been widely deployed in a long time, and those towers are (compared to modern ones) tiny
If he wants to build more windmills that look like that I'm sure it's allowed. And if he actually decided to build a windmill because he thinks it looks nice I would applaud that as a pleasant and productive project. But what he actually wonders is why other people aren't building windmills for him.
