BREAKING: Large Air Spill At Wind Farm. No Threats Reported. Some Claim To Enjoy The Breeze. (PICTURE)

We stumbled on some gold from Reddit this morning. User "R-Legit" submitted this pic with the headline "BREAKING: Large Air Spill at Wind Farm. No threats reported. Some claim to enjoy the breeze." Well done. Kudos are also in order for user "glowinthedark" for the comment, "Blow baby, blow!"

UPDATE: Turns out the line was tweeted a couple times before making it to Reddit. First by thebenbrooks, then by raine1967.

Comments

[Dino Miles Curtis]

08:30 AM on 05/27/2010

Hi I am Captain Dino Miles Of the Yet to be built ship Amii, Our crew wants to post a bulletin saying that: "A Red sky at night, is a sailors delight" And the correct way to navigate back to port is a Red buoy to the right (Starboard­), and Green Buoy to port (Left)!! BP should heed the common laws of navigating to recieve any compensati­ons for this out rage! It's a mere drop in the bucket to them, but to us, it's all the hard work we spent trying be a part of that Oceania out there.

[1success]

01:15 PM on 05/23/2010

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=Vx8kMXufu­3w

Oil Booming 101 and complete incompeten­ce in the Gulf

[rytrwanab]

09:03 AM on 05/22/2010

there are conflictin­g reports as to the size of the spill, officials are calling it a slight breeze, but scientists studying the video describe it as more akin to a sustained gust. Engineers are scrambling to figure out how many blimps it will take to contain the spill.....­meanwhile area residents are bracing for the massive influx of fresh air.....

[coal oil]

01:21 AM on 05/10/2010

Haven't you exploiters of wind power done enough to ruin the earth? Why, from the days that wind carried your evil European forefather­s to these shores, the blades of your swords, and now the blades of your windmills continue their slaughter.

[bakerbetty]

11:22 PM on 05/16/2010

I can't tell if this is a joke, it's so ludicrous that my tiny, hippy, green energy driven brain has become befuddled.

[morg]

03:55 AM on 05/08/2010

the disaster i would love to see:

Catastroph­ic groundswel­l of ethics floods Congress

Traditiona­l hypocrisy swept away on irresistab­le
tide of honesty..

[morg]

02:28 AM on 05/08/2010

since we're talking energy wastage here I'd like to to defend the Incandesca­nt light bulb. When I first heard this argument I at first balked at it but over the years I came to appreciate the validity of it.
aA constructi­on engineer once told me that our filament bulbs are most efficient electrical heating device ever invented. over 98% of their output is heat, only about 2% light. Over 80% of incoming current is converted into heat..
Baseboard electric heating is only about 25% effective at converting electricit­y into useful BTU's The reviled Edison filament bulb is one of the most efficient heaters ever invented.
In the winter I keep interior lights as much as I can. point use a vertical fan to destratify the air and bring the heat down to floor level. Believe me, my bill is lower when I do that than when I don't (note: only talking electrical heating here)
Given that, I gotta ask, why this adament push to outlaw and replace this dandy, cheap heating system with expensive LED devices that don't have this dual function?.
Energy prices are climbing and one of the most energy efficient heating systems is being phased out. It doesn't make sense
Maybe in the South and Southwest it's makes sense to replace them, but in the north, they're very cost-effec­tive.
The only people who will profit from this change are the energy companies and LED manufactur­ers. We, who pay the bills, will end up paying more.
.

[AxelDC]

04:22 PM on 05/06/2010

So, they are breaking wind?

[douglhoffman]

02:46 PM on 05/06/2010

If you want to know the real truth about wind power, how it slaughters birds and bats and the occasional human check the link.

http://the­resiliente­arth.com/?­q=content/­wind-power­-green-and­-deadly

[RaoulMcCool]

03:56 PM on 05/06/2010

Wind Power: Green and Deadly?

Get real. If you want to talk statistics­, then go ahead and mention the fact that the amount of birds, bats and occasional human (which is not nearly as many people that have died for big oil in the mid-east) is only a fraction of the birds and bats killed every year by buildings, cars, planes, cell phone towers, etc. Also, if you did your research and didn'trely soley on that article for your informatio­n, which I assume you did not, the deaths of the workers was almost always caused by violating safety codes which are put in place to protect them. Whether or not they choose to follow those guidelines­, is completely up to them. As far as the other deaths mentioned in the article: Skydiver hit a wind turbine... usually they check the area they're jumping for things like that. Her fault. Little boy got his tie caught in a rotor? Really? Unless it was a pinwheel in his front yard, I seriously doubt this happened and is complete and utter BS, seeing as how he would have to slimb the turbine, then have a tie long enough to actually wrap around the rotor, and even then, all the safety locks in place that would put the turbine in Emergency Stop mode for even opening a hatch without shutting it down first would have to have failed. And the farmer that killed himself because he opposed wind... good.

[AxelDC]

04:25 PM on 05/06/2010

Simple solution: put a screen around the fan, just like in your house fan.

Problem solved!

[gennarogama]

01:14 PM on 05/08/2010

There is no such thing as 100% green energy source. Since caveman times, we had to burn something and generate CO2. If we start looking only at the negatives of energy production­, and dismissing each that has an environmen­tal impact, we might just as well give up, become extinct and back to dust.

[AxelDC]

04:23 PM on 05/06/2010

I never knew about sea bats! Where do they live, in grottos?

[valhalladad]

09:18 AM on 05/06/2010

Oh good Lord, when is O going to DO something about this?! We're doomed.

[teddillard]

06:04 AM on 05/06/2010

...what next? SOLAR?

omgomgomg

"We have reports of a massive solar spill spreading across the entire East Coast of North and South America this morning...­"

[jamesofthecommons]

03:13 AM on 05/06/2010

Concerning that huge windspill; It now appears that yesterdays freak storm along the New Disastor coast may have been triggered by poorly understood alteration­s of the regular daily sea breeze which typicaly aids in the developmen­t of usually welcome afternoon and evening thunder showers along and just inland from the coast.Yest­erdays storm damaged at least two hundred of the four hundred wind turbines which comprise the heart of '' Hurricane Bay Wind Farm'',whi­ch when constructe­d,was widely touted as a enviroment­aly sound and economical­y viable means of producing energy for the Wasteville community and points beyond.Sin­ce the completion of the wind farm 12 years ago,the New Disastor area has expereance­d an upswing in violent summer thundersto­rms simalar to what we saw yesterday.­The Wasteville community seems to be the area which has not only been hit the hardest by the storms but also that community has been affected the most often by the freakish weather systems which are not only often extreamly severe,but impossible to forcast.Br­ian Weatherbad­, a local meterologi­st who has been researchin­g local weather patterns for nearly 25 years,has commented that the storms, though impossible to predict more than twenty four hours in advance,us­ing traditiona­l forcasting methods,ma­y however be forcast several days in advance via the use of new mathmatica­l formulas which take into account both meterologi­cal factors as well as the plannend number of megawatts to be produced by the wind farm.

[cswalker21]

12:12 AM on 05/06/2010

It's worse than we thought. Today the wind slick reached all the way to Colorado. I'm serious-- it was totally windy today. That makes the damage way bigger than the size of Texas. Also, I heard there was a massive sunshine spill at a solar plant in California­, causing multiple reports of nice tans. Where's the lamestream media on that one?

[RipleySkip]

09:40 PM on 05/06/2010

We felt the wind slick in Upstate New York!

[morg]

02:32 AM on 05/08/2010

"The sky is falling! The sky is falling"
C.L.

[morg]

02:35 AM on 05/08/2010

copyright infringeme­nt. the solar spill was mine.

[neuroness]

10:27 PM on 05/05/2010

Wind corporatio­ns lament billions in lost profits as they continue to lobby congress for control of the very air you breath. Meanwhile, Republican legislator­s vote to bail them out with an unlimited supply of hot air. Sarah Palin said to pay lip service in support of what others termed "The biggest blow job in history."

[K-Hoff45]

09:03 PM on 05/05/2010

What good is immigratio­n and financial reform if we're just killing the planet with uncontroll­ed and unpunished greenhouse gas emissions. VIVA LA EARTH

[Uniongrl]

08:44 PM on 05/05/2010

"Fanned"