Wind turbines used to absorb a power surplus?

A rabbit doesn't have much of a life expectancy here. Raccoons however... I was blaming the deer for destroying the bird feeder until I saw the coon tracks in the fresh snow one morning. The skunks sort of hibernate but without a doubt they'll be up and about soon to add to the mix.

That was the upstate NY dynamic. The paper would run photos of deer yarded up in the deep snow and starving so someone would organize a hay airlift. Next year, more deer yarded up and starving.

The same dynamic happens with human populations.

I've seen the film but missed the rom-com part I guess. Too focused on the birds to observe the humans.

I've watched a cat kill an unwary robin. Early bird got the worm, cat got the early bird. S*it happens.

I used to see flickers but I haven't seen them lately. While they are technically woodpeckers they prefer to feed on the ground. I don't know if the cats got them or if they moved to a cat free environment.

They provided me with hours of amusement. They're the klutzes of the bird family and the only bird I've seen that can fall out of a tree.

My neighbours cat ambushes birds coming to a bird feeder. As the birds fly in to perch it pounces jumping three feet in the air and catches them still in flight.

Pigeons feed on the ground under bird feeders and seem easy prey for cats although once the area is covered in feathers they become very wary about landing for a few days. This shows why the old country practice of protecting crops worked - killing crows and leaving the corpses in the field. Probably not too effective these days where kites and buzzards are no longer exterminated and have been re-introduced to areas. These birds will very quickly spot the dead crow and eat it.

OTOH, when the old family home was sold, a large wardrobe was left in one of the bedrooms, because NCB subsidence repairs had slightly lowered the ceiling above the stairs, and they could not be removed.

Chris

Do you have a telephone?

Here in the UK BT (who came from the Post Office, which had a state monopoly) are gradually replacing copper with fibre because it is more reliable.

Andy

Please don't say things like that. There are people out there who will believe you.

Just as they believe we can have 100% of our power coming from wind.

Andy

That was my assumption. However...

On 19/03/2023 14:09, micky wrote: > Pointing things out doesn't work here. 🙁

would suggest not everyone agrees.

Andy

Why do you think they are installing those 5G masts on every street corner?

There is also the under pavement 100G fibre networks being installed throughout the country with the machine readers every 10 metres for better tracking resolution :)

I invented the concept of connecting a motor to a generator and making free power. I think I was about 7 years old.

Youtube is full of similar schemes.

If the goal is to waste excess power, pumped hydro will work fine.

I'm kind of autistic and don't much care for people or music or art, but I love romantic stories [1]. I guess the tiny mating part of my brain survived being crowded out by electronics.

That makes sense evolutionarily. If engineers weren't romantic, they would be selected out of the population and everybody would be artists.

There must be a reason that some women, generally great women, like enginers but I haven't figured out why.

Favorite movie Pride and Prejudice 2005

It's also a great method of power distribution. Less visual impact than pylons.

Yeah seem a few video shorts of cats doing that.

But I doubt many birds die like that.

Sure. Everything dies eventually, so if you create more critters, more will die.

Someone published an alleged circuit diagram - it was actually for a wah wah FX pedal.

I didnt think you could get stupider than remoaners or Greens. I was wrong.

God, I hope so...

Lots of seedy things go rancid. Fritos don't.

I stand on our deck and dramatically eat a few Fritos. That annoys the ravens waiting in the trees, and they fly up to get theirs before they are all gone.