Belgians accused of ‘stealing wind’ from the Dutch
Belgians accused of ‘stealing wind’ from the Dutch
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Belgians accused of ‘stealing wind’ from the Dutch
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Verzijlbergh explained that Belgian wind farms have an advantage over Dutch ones. “They are located southwest of the Dutch parks and the wind often comes from the southwest, so you often steal some of our wind,” he said.
Umm, my guy. It sounds like it's their wind and they graciously pass on their leftovers instead of "extracting" all of the wind.
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It was then that the Dutch poldered the Netherlands out to upwind of the Belgian wind farms.
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Would be such a power move.
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Peak old man yells at clouds.
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They're gonna steal them next!
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Just ask them to spin the windmills in reverse 3% of the time
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LMAO
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There’s a fart joke here somewhere…
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"But it turned out the French were the ones producing it all along."
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How did they catch wind of this?
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Im sending them my farts
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ooooo those Belgians! That's why they have those little twirly moustaches!
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For fuck's sake... it starts...
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In an interview with Belgian broadcaster VRT, Verzijlbergh said: “A wind turbine is designed to extract wind from the air. If you measure behind a wind turbine, the wind blows less hard. Behind a wind farm with many wind turbines together, you really see lower wind speeds.”
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To me this does make ‘scientific or math sense’. But, how dramatic is it?
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It doesn't really even make scientific or math sense. Why? Due to why\how wind exists in the first place. You could completely block or "use up" 100% of the wind a windmill height, but it wouldn't effect anything at all for airspeed a km away. It's much the same way that you can have a leaf blower shooting out 300km\hour wind, but not feel it the slightest bit from 10 meters.
Air movement is constantly having to have energy fed into it in order to make it go anywhere. This is from uneven heating and air going from high pressure areas to low pressure areas. It isn't really made from the wind that's already moving around. If this weather guy wasn't actually just making a joke, he must be a terrible meteorologist for having such a poor understanding of something that should be directly in his wheelhouse.
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Let's take windmill like in the example, it has 3 blades, each maybe at most 5 degrees wide (out of the 360 for a circle). So that covers 15 total degrees or 1/24th the wind area, so at absolute best, it's about 4% of the wind power in that area being stopped. But the blades don't actually capture 100% of the wind power, a good amount will deflect off, those blades are not 5 degrees wide, they're less and they aren't straight blades, so again they capture less. Further the blade only captures a small vertical section of its own footprint, so it captures dramatically less wind power. Lastly blades are spaced with a good amount of clearance from each other leading to even less wind power captured. In aggregate, even by entirely layman measure, these likely have an immeasurable impact on another wind farm.
I'd bet if you built a mile high, mile wide wind capture device that captured 100% of wind power going to it, and then put a 2nd one 1 mile directly behind that, you could just maybe get a few % measurable impact.
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it does make sense to me too. the effect is just not "big", whatever that means xD.
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They’ll never have more trumps than the US.
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Just don't break it, before you send the wind onwards to me...
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Next thing we know they'll be accusing chestnuts of being lazy.
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We just need one world government. Problem solved.
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"PROBLEM SOLVED." is on sale right now!
Grab your populist talking point for only 3 seconds of thought at your nearest mouth.
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