Wind power in crisis...

[biffvernon]

??? I must have missed something.

 

[Penners]

Sorry - I meant a factor in the apparent plausibility of the implausable.

Oh, forget it - I'm sounding more confused with every word I type!

 

[Lime]

It is the turning of the Earth that pushes the trees into the air

Centrifugal force is it? So the growth theory was just a conspiracy.

well, no, surprising as it may seem it is the centripetal force that causes trees to grow upwards.
As all skolars of the theory "what-comes-down-must-have-gone-up" worked out before they started.
The centripetal force, as you may know, is also the force that causes flowers to grow towards the tops of plants.
Hence the name centripetal.
Centifugal, on the otherhand, is the force which causes an imitative polyphonic composition in which a theme or themes are stated successively in all of the voices of the contrapuntal structure.
Hence the Ooohs and Aaahs of a child on a garden swing resisting the centripetal force and at the same time enjoying the centrifugal.

 

[biffvernon]

centripetal, of course. A momentary lapse from physics into common parlance. Sorry, Lime, you are absolutely right, as ever.

 

[NT]

This thread is becoming a flowering of science.


NT

 

[skier-hughes]

No it's just blossoming.

 

[Gareth Hughes]

Ah, so the wind is caused by the trees waving to and fro. Now I understand. Thankyou.

wasn't that the generally accepted "scientific" explanation of where the wind comes from a couple of hundred years ago?

Indeed it was.
Now we know better.
It is the turning of the Earth that pushes the trees into the air that causes the wind.
Proof of this can be seen quite clearly in a strong wind as many of the trees are bent back with the force they are exerting.
Some trees work so hard that they are uprooted.
Have you ever noticed that once trees are uprooted the wind eventually dies down?
Further proof surely?

There was an apparently serious letter in (I think) the D**ly M**l not long ago from someone protesting that "wind farms are a waste of money. Britain is windy enough as it is without building these monstrous wind generators everywhere"

Of course, if we hadn't cut all the ancient woodland down we wouldn't need them.

I'm just off to the moon for some cheese to go with my wine.

 

[Penners]

The centripetal force, as you may know, is also the force that causes flowers to grow towards the tops of plants.
Hence the name centripetal.
Centifugal, on the otherhand, is the force which causes an imitative polyphonic composition in which a theme or themes are stated successively in all of the voices of the contrapuntal structure.
Hence the Ooohs and Aaahs of a child on a garden swing resisting the centripetal force and at the same time enjoying the centrifugal.

I'd vote for vote Lime as Minister for Science. His is so much more fun than all that boring empirical stuff.

 

[Penners]

I'm just off to the moon for some cheese to go with my wine.

Do we infer from the italics that it's your normal practice to drink other people's? I bet they love you, down the pub.