Scientists hope to hugely reduce the cost of wind energy by removing the blades from wind farms, instead taking advantage of a special phenomenon to cause the turbines to violently shake.
Vortex, a startup from Spain, has developed the tall sticks known as Bladeless — white poles jutting out of the ground, that are built so that they can oscillate. They do so as a result of the way that the wind is whipped up around them, using a phenomenon that architects avoid happening to buildings and encouraging it so that the sticks shake.
They do so using vortices, which is where the company gets its name from. The bladeless turbines use special magnets to ensure that the turbines are optimised to shake the most they can, whatever speed the wind is travelling at.
As the sticks vibrate, that movement is converted into electricity by an alternator.
Wiggling Poles of the Wasteland Harvest Electricity For Power Hungry Humans
These also look like they would cause fewer problems for birds and bats.
This is really cool.
They leave off the important note that when the wind rises, each pole makes a sound like a hundred vuvuzelas roaring at once. In the post-apocalyptic world of the future, villagers will speak in hushed tones about the Roaring Plains, and caution adventurous travelers to stay well away.
I appreciate how they essentially invented very useful yet alien-looking screaming pillars. Science continues to make some suspiciously sci-fi shit.
At least you won’t have to go outside to know how windy it is… You’ll hear it.
They provide us energy
They provide us warmth
They love us
These martyr gods, their twitching agony is our salvation
GLORY TO THE WAILING OBELISKS
In case anyone was wondering about the Roaring Plains mentioned in “Sunflower Seeds”.
lol so i was on the Rick and Morty facebook page and they are doing a contest where the winner gets to voice a character on the show, and someone asked if a girl could win and some self-entitled asshat responded but then
i don’t know but i’m reblogging it because i’m afraid it’s one of those “REBLOG THIS CREATURE AND GET WEALTH” memes in disguise, and if I don’t, it’s going to come to my house, steal everything of value I own, piss on the rest, and leave without even letting me pet it.
PSA: tumblr user littlefuckinmonster is stealing human bones from cemeteries in Louisiana. Please don’t let them get away with this and spread the word/signal boost!
idk about this man
theres nothing to back up this claim at all??
i dont even know if you know anything about this user, you could just be a dick trying to turn people against them.
once in 5th grade my mom bought me this set of like 200 glitter pens because I had mentioned that everyone at school was obsessed with them but I didn’t really care for them so the next day I brought them to class and kids started offering to buy them so I sold them for $3 each and I made almost $500 and then I got sent to the principals office and was told I couldn’t sell them anymore like sorry that I was a natural born entrepreneur
When I was a freshman in High School our Junior/Senior classes were like 90% stoner kids. When you’re a junior/senior, you can leave the school for lunch if you want, so the majority of the kids would go hot box their cars in an abandoned parking lot a few blocks over during lunch hour.
However, since they needed time to air out, they always got back after the kitchen stopped selling lunch, and they, of course, had the mega munchies.
I started selling kids homemade baked goods at outrageous prices, but I’m a great baker so nobody complained. I was making 25 bucks for 4 muffins, and 8 dollars a brownie.
I made like 2 grand before the school made me stop selling food because it wasn’t a “school official bake sale.” but my regulars would slip me cash + orders in the hallways when we passed each other, and there was nothing in school policy about giving away food, so I would just bring them their snacks the next day. The school couldn’t touch me, I was rolling in dough, and rolling out dough, all freshman year.
Find your loopholes, kids.
born entrepreneurs…. insane…
LOL i know two kids like this.
she made some soap and offered some to my dad and said “Uh 17, I mean 7″ and I was like no, you said it right. 17.
other one sold bracelets
I know a guy in highschool who made so much money in sophmore year selling cupcakes the school shut it all down.
a kid at my school has a panini-maker so he sells paninis to other students and everyone called him Dan the Panini Man
but the campus police people shut him down because it’s not legal to sell food if it’s not a bake sale or w/e
so now he’s Dan the Paper Towel Man and he sells paper towels, but with each paper towel purchase, you get a free panini
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hey guys it has come to my attention that my terminology was off by saying “ islamic” and should be replaced with “muslims” i hope you guys can tell my intentions were good natured and pure but I do apologize for the wrong term
Grade school teacher sparks conversation with students through #IWishMyTeacherKnew notes.
“92% of our students qualify for free and reduced lunch…I struggled
to understand the reality of my students’ lives and how to best support
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so me and @swifty-fox (we’re such losers) were talking and just!!! alec with BACK DIMPLES and FRECKLES all over his tummy!!! prepare yourselves!!!
so magnus doesn’t really notice them at first but one night, when he and alec are laying really close (shirtless), magnus is kinda tracing his fingers along alec’s skin. (he’s so gentle and elegant and alec feels so so so safe and he’s never been afraid of danger but this. THIS is nice. THIS is so vanilla sweet)
anyways magnus is walking his fingers along alec’s chest and he’s getting lower
but then he see’s them
FRECKLES
soft freckles sprinkled across alec’s tummy and he’s like ‘you have FRECKLES’ (imagine ‘what are those’ meme but less meme)
alec kinda hums because he’s so relaxed and magnus is a Goner for this angel
so magnus shifts and he starts pressing pretty kisses along alec’s tummy
and alec makes noises and magnus pulls away when he realizes that alec’s LAUGHING and GIGGLING
experimentally, magnus presses more kisses around alec’s navel and just
alec’s ticklish and magnus keeps kissing him until alec’s breathless and wide awake
but wait
what happened to the back DIMPLES
ok lets imagine malec in the mornings and alec wakes up first (of course he does) and he’s all messy hair and sleepy eyes and he sloppily rubs at his face
magnus is still sprawled on the bed when alec sits up but he’s looking at alec, who’s back is now turned to him, and when alec moves to get up, his shirt tugs up and magnus is blessed to see the Dimples on alec’s lower back
magnus isn’t okay because first FRECKLES and now THIS