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To: neverdem
The solution to excess power during windy days is so obvious; why haven't they thought of it already?

With hydro power, you build reservoirs behind your power-producing dams. That's how you store all that runoff during the big snow melts and rainy seasons.

What to do with all that excess wind energy?

Balloons. Big, big, balloons. Let the unused wind fill 'em up, and then when the wind dies down, open their necks in front of the windmills. Problem solved.

Next, I'm working on mirrored thermos bottles to capture excess sunlight.

5 posted on 02/10/2012 4:33:53 AM PST by Erasmus (Able was I ere I saw this crappy little island.)
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To: Erasmus
Big, big, balloons. Let the unused wind fill 'em up, and then when the wind dies down, open their necks in front of the windmills.

Your namesake would be proud of you.

I think.

Naw.

19 posted on 02/11/2012 7:42:09 AM PST by Ole Okie
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