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[james_davis_nicoll]

As mentioned in comments, Dan Simmons has a dystopic novel coming out.

Canada, used to dividing itself into smaller parts to appease ethnic groups, languages, and claims to prior ownership, [...]

Is that a snipe at Nunavut?

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Hard to pick out one single piece of stupid

[(Anonymous)]

but the "tens of thousands of rusting windmills" are probably up there.

(Modern windmills are made of composites. The turbine housing is fiberglass. They don't rust.)

Also, it's unclear why the mountains are covered with windmills that don't work. Did the wind run out of gas?


Doug M.

Re: Hard to pick out one single piece of stupid

[jamoche]

Oh, but they've been "frozen in place from the day the state utilities finally gave up on them." And turned them off, of course.

Re: Hard to pick out one single piece of stupid

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

I suppose there's also planes sitting in midair near various airports, from when their fuel ran out and their pilots' unions went on strike so they just set the emergency air brakes and left them there?

--Dave, cartoons can actually teach you a lot about the world

Re: Hard to pick out one single piece of stupid

[(Anonymous)]

I would bet money that was driven by some specific piece of local NIMBYism; Simmons lives in Colorado, not far from what's sometimes called the Wind Line. "Those things are ruining our view! We paid good money for that view!"


Doug M.

Re: Hard to pick out one single piece of stupid

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Windmills just turn because of the electric motors in them, put there by liberals to fool you into believing in wind power. I hear they got the idea from Kim Stanley Robinson.