A restless sleep GOOD MORNING!!! to you all! Yup, had to toss and turn a bit last night as business and law and work and life played “peek-a-boo” in my brain. Juggling calendars and schedules and, just, well, kept me up. A small nap fixed it though!
Monday Musings Ed-vise today. Cause it’s MONDAY! So GET AFTER IT!
Went down to the farm this past weekend. I’ll brief you later on the “why” once I get permissions from a certain, very special person in my life that I have known and she has known me for over 30 years.
Sat down with Granny and gave her an update on my Number One Son. Told her he is working on windmills in Nebraska.
Her response: I HATE THOSE THINGS! I HOPE THEY ALL GET BLOWN UP!
Rather random first response don’t ya think? I agree.
On the drive home, I thought about why she would think that type thought about something like a windmill. Then, I realized, it probably has to do with the crap information she has been digesting for so long. She has it in her head as the vile and evil GREEN ENERGY! The Devil himself manifesting in a metal structure that spins! AHHHHHHHH!
A bit of learning this morning for you all. In a real basic form as written by a history major.
See, electricity is created by rotating a magnet inside a copper wire coil. That’s like the real super basic way it was created. That system is called a turbine.
Now, you can rotate the magnet inside the coil of wire in a few ways. You can rotate it with your hands (manual). You can use fuel like you car. You can use steam power to power the motor to rotate the turbine like the old trains. You can use water that flows through a dam to turn the turbine. Or, you can use wind to rotate a fan that turns the turbine.
One way or the other, you must rotate the turbine to create electricity.
If you use fuel, that costs money (around $5 a gallon). Just like your car. If you use steam, you have to heat the water to make the steam. That takes fuel as well. A lot of time it’s nuclear fuel. Not cheap but pretty efficient.
I cannot find any job that is simply to turn a turbine though in the movie Conan the Barbarian, we see Arnold Schwarzenegger pushing the “Wheel of Pain” which would be considered a turbine if it wasn’t crushing humans or whatever.
Then, there is wind. Wind is free. Wind is readily available. Harnessing wind power is something us humans have been doing since FOR EVER!!!
And yet, setting up a giant fan to rotate that turbine has the equivalency in many people’s mind of, well, pick whatever demonic being or evil government intervention program you can think of and that is how it is viewed by many.
Here’s one, just one, of the benefits that Granny had to chew on: $10,000 to $15,000 PER BIG FAN!
The project that Number One Son is working on has seven of these big fans. Those fans sit on a farmers field in Nebraska. That farmer is being paid $10,000 to $15,000 PER MONTH; PER FAN!
That farmer’s cows can still walk right up to that big fan and rub it’s beefy ass on it when it has an itch. That farmer can still plant under that fan. That farmer can make use of the land the fan sits on. And if the fan decides to crumble, that farmer can keep on farming that land.
Now, I challenge the petroleum industry to provide the same ability to that farmer.
No.
I didn’t think so.
I’m just saying
That’s it for today. Be the person a stranger will do CPR on. Check in on each other and remember the monster that loves to dance is the…BOOGIEMAN! BWAHAHAHAHAHHA….BOO!
Peace
Ed-vise 