The Gun Counter

Give them their windmills for electricity, fine. On the days the winds don't blow hard enough, we'll just use some really large fans powered by those portable nuclear generators to move those big windmill blades. They shouldn't have a problem with that, right?

can we hang spotted owls from the windmill blades?

mekender wrote:can we hang spotted owls from the windmill blades?

No, but you can glue them in place to make them power the windmills when the fans aren't working.

Why not have the enviromentalists to run in giant hamster wheels connected to generators?

Whirlibird wrote:

mekender wrote:can we hang spotted owls from the windmill blades?

No, but you can glue them in place to make them power the windmills when the fans aren't working.

LMAO, somebody make up a blueprint with that on it!

dfwmtx wrote:Why not have the enviromentalists to run in giant hamster wheels connected to generators?

That's what I've been thinking. If they want it so badly, why not make em work for it?

dfwmtx wrote:Why not have the enviromentalists to run in giant hamster wheels connected to generators?

Make sure to put them somewhere really cold (like Siberia cold), where they need to keep running or they die.

Dub_James wrote:

dfwmtx wrote:Why not have the enviromentalists to run in giant hamster wheels connected to generators?

That's what I've been thinking. If they want it so badly, why not make em work for it?

That's too simple of a solution, though. We need one as complex as Derrida in Akkadian to engage the consciousness of the average enviroweenie,yet ironic enough to make them wish they'd read the fine print. Besides, the human power generation thing is done in a few homes here and there for television watching.

SoupOrMan wrote:That's too simple of a solution, though. We need one as complex as Derrida in Akkadian to engage the consciousness of the average enviroweenie,yet ironic enough to make them wish they'd read the fine print. Besides, the human power generation thing is done in a few homes here and there for television watching.

Offer them free theraputic soaks in a hot tub afterwards. But then... surprise, surprise.... the water heater in the hot tub is powered by the hamster-wheel generator they just got off of.

dfwmtx wrote:Why not have the enviromentalists to run in giant hamster wheels connected to generators?

Haha. You joke about this, but google the phrase "appropriate technology" and you'll soon see that there are green lobbyists (some well-funded and organised) who are serious about this nonsense. They truly want to bind essentially the whole third world to pre-industrial levels of technology so as to reduce the human impact on mother gaia.

... and by the sweat of their brows, they shall live...