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Windmills Alongside Highways… So Beautiful Netherlands
Windmills alongside highways… so beautiful Netherlands
Jun 12, 2017 3:24 PM
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Windmills alongside highways… so beautiful Netherlands
WellWhatTheHeck
Just wait until they start placing them along runways!
TheBigLebowskii
More places should do stuff like this!!
IflingPoo
Windmills alongside highways......... So HOT right now
pangyre
Well at least the crabs eat very well.
DickMcStiffens
It would look better to have piles of coal alongside the highway.
CaptEgDiggles
Netherlands is beautiful
Adambean
Are they just there to blow the sea back? When the sea rises that'll be the among the first to go under. :(
christ0s
soon that will all be underwater.
a1104477
Those cars driving around below sea level like it's nothin
cousteau
What's the point of putting offshore windmills at like 100 ft from the shore?
GetSchwiftyNow
Flevoland... The most artificial piece of the Netherlands.
Memaleph
Fun fact: that's how they're emptying the see.
mariapia0815
Windmills alongside highways... so beautiful Netherlands
MikeyMikeymike
Windmills are a stupid investment. Banks, investors a d foreign companies make money. The people pay more for their electric bill (backup)
TheMubb
Not really though
swollenrighteye
I think this is ugly.
Weelildragon
A lot of Dutch agree. One of the reasons they're lagging behind in renewable energy.
Weelildragon
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/European-union-renewables-new.svg/1200px-European-union-renewables-new.svg.png
Weelildragon
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/European-union-renewables-new.svg/1200px-European-union-renewables-new.svg.png
Weelildragon
Map of europe with % renewable energy.
dogfavoriter
Yo momma such a lesbian, she moved to The Netherlands because she heard it had a lot of dikes.
GDSTEVE
Your mom's so fat that when she had a heart attack during sex I had to call 1822.
PunapartainenViikinkiPeruna
Netherlands is ready for take off. Any time now.
CommunistFaggot
Uuuuuuuuzuzuuuuuuuuuuuzzuzuzuzuzuzzzzzuzuzuzzuzuxx
cogs
But they're not windmills. They're wind turbines. They don't mill anything.
D1gger
https://youtu.be/PmDVHs-juPo
Sephirus
And loads of people in the Netherlands are protesting for windmills to be placed far away in the sea
tundrasaurus
spoiler alert- they power 12 houses.
HairytheSheep
I all seriousness, id say what you see produces less than 1 MW
Jkmiller20148
Now if only they can synchronize the blades...
jwatt32
Windmills alongside highways... so beautiful Netherlands
darcsidious101
Windmills alongside highways... so beautiful Netherlands
Daaabloons
Windmills alongside highways... so beautiful Netherlands
SofaKingGreat
Widmells alung si hiwhey... so bootiful Neverland
polyesterrocketpants
Windmills alongside highways... so beautiful Netherlands
PourMollyWaterInMySocks
Windmills alongside highways... so beautiful Netherlands
justahumanonline
Windmills alongside highways... so beautiful Netherlands
TonioReggae
Windmills alongside highways... so beautiful Netherlands
IWouldJustLikeToSay
Windmills alongside highways... so beautiful Netherlands
rchecka
"Not as cool as clean coal. CLEAN coal." - Dumbfuck Trump
alupnya
Do you have any idea how much pollution is created from producing those turbines? Not to mention the petroleum used for upkeep?
rchecka
I'll bet it takes less than my shitty old car does driving around on the road for a year.
Insensitive
You think coal-burning powerplants are made of organic materials? The big deal isn't the construction, it's pumping pollution into the air.
Jawsers
Neat, I knew there was going to be one of these in here. I must be psychic or something.
somethingsomethingwittyhere
I call BS. Show us legit sources (peer reviewed journal) proving so, not coal industry's drivel.
runOMG
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-energy/renewable-energy/environmental-impacts-wind-power#.WT7T3HoXbqA since you won't cite a source I will.
runOMG
The article states emission is about 1/6th that of coal per kilowatt. If you can find a reliable source that disputes it I would love to see
alupnya
1 MW of wind turbine capacity requires 230 tons of coal for the steel.
runOMG
What you're saying doesn't make sense to me and it's still not a source. Was I unclear about wanting an outside reference?
alupnya
1,020 tons of coal generates 1.9 million kWh of electricity. 1 MW of wind capacity takes 10 mnths to generate 1.9 million kWh of electricity
LawrenceIsASponge
Nowhere near as much as burning coal
rchecka
"CLEAN coal" man. Make sure you use trump's buzzword and intonations when you say it.
rumbarious
Wind turbines
ealkrjj
Actually, these are for the Netherlands' famous road side bakeries.
koopaya
Bakeries alongside highways... so beautiful Netherlands
ourari
Everything in this picture that's not water is man-made. It's the edge of Flevoland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flevoland
Worpend
And probably some woman made, exCUSE you!
giantslurper
The sky also?
ourari
Uh, yeah... Totally...
Sogeking
The sky is mostly weed smoke here, so yea
TheSauceFinder
They didn't make water because they're lazy.
Seminole4ever
The grass too?
BenSnow97
"grass"... yeah, still Netherlands
jinoh
Theoretically yes. Since they formed the land, they probably planted the grass or rolled it out. I guess pregrown is man-made in some way?
Steasse
Do you have an exact location of the highway?
alexburgers
https://www.google.nl/maps/@52.5913221,5.5540678,4480m/data=!3m1!1e3
AncientSeraph
In case Imgur dienst like the Google shortener: search for 'Flevocentrale', just north-east of there is the bend.
cousteau
It totally dondt like it, but it kinda works.
Traen0k
Okay. For real though. Y'all just smack the keyboard to name shit, amirite?
AncientSeraph
For real though: nope. Some combined letters form single sounds, which probably look confusing for foreigners.
Curiousone545
Nah, it probably means, "fake land" or something.
Traen0k
No man. Read the article and look at some of the names. It's like wut??
SankingDragon
Flevoland is so cool they just forced everyone to change their maps of Europe by adding new land mass like wtf okay
AwkwardKeming
Isn't that where Guy Fieri always wanted to take people?
Avocadontcare
ourari
I... I don't know, but I hope not. I'm perfectly happy living in a Fieri-free country.
themuttonisniceandlean
Is this taken at high tide?
bronsonlug
When the levee breaks
alexburgers
No its always like this. We just built a wall and pumped the water out, the land is several meters below the water level. 1/2
alexburgers
The water itself is now also fresh water (doesn't have tides), because we also blocked out the North Sea with another wall. 2/2
Racealistic
We sure know how to build sturdy (sea) walls. Maybe we'll take Trump as our apprentice.
dyingallthetime
Aren't you asking for disaster as sea levels rise? Or have you guys already figured that out.
themuttonisniceandlean
It doesn't look like at the highest tides of the year it would be enough, or for storms, but I know the Netherlands knows what it's doing.
alexburgers
Forced perspective maybe a bit, the top is probably 2 stories above the water, and then 4-5 down, the ground is 2 stories below the water.
themuttonisniceandlean
That makes sense, just the angle. Now I see the grass berm actually goes up even past the rock wall next to the water.
alexburgers
Also, the water is disconnected from the sea, but in case of storms, waves do happen, just not that high.
themuttonisniceandlean
Is that fresh water?
L0StWaNdErEr
If it keeps on rainin' levee's goin' to break When the levee breaks I'll have no place to stay.
corkoman
Move along
GetSchwiftyNow
Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move
TheRealFireFrenzy
Dude, not the first time we've built a dyke, we got this brah...
GasBandit
You just watch those fingers, mister.
HairytheSheep
Thing about building flood walls and levees is when they do overtop or break its catastrophic, you have to continually build them higher
TheRealFireFrenzy
maintenance is fairly key but if you do the math right i think they last a while, i mean we havent had to redo the major highway over
TheRealFireFrenzy
the afsluitdijk in ages as far as i know