{"id":556,"date":"2009-01-08T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T15:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/?p=556"},"modified":"2014-05-20T09:08:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T08:08:05","slug":"some-of-our-electricity-is-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2009\/01\/08\/some-of-our-electricity-is-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Some of our electricity is missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"558\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2009\/01\/08\/some-of-our-electricity-is-missing\/wind-turbine-crop-circle\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/wind-turbine-crop-circle.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"150,150\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"wind-turbine-crop-circle\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/wind-turbine-crop-circle.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-558 alignleft\" title=\"wind-turbine-crop-circle\" src=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/wind-turbine-crop-circle.jpg\" alt=\"wind-turbine-crop-circle\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>We use Ecotricity for electricity supply in our household, as they use the money we pay them to build new wind turbines.\u00a0 Annoyingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/lincolnshire\/7817378.stm\">aliens are wrecking them<\/a>. One early report said that a blade had been torn off and &#8212; ominously &#8212; was nowhere to be found (perhaps implying it had been abducted). A later report said that it was found at the foot of the wind turbine.\u00a0 Probably should have checked there first.<\/p>\n<p>Now the county councillor for the area has piped up with a report of seeing a &#8220;round, white light&#8221; with a &#8220;slight red edge&#8221; hovering near the wind turbines. So was it aliens, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/mechanical-failure-theory-in-ufo-mystery-1232483.html\">mechanical failure<\/a>? Either way, it mightn&#8217;t be a bad idea to start installing cameras at turbine sites.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If it is indeed aliens, perhaps it is because we are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/news\/wind-turbine-crop-circle\">sending them the wrong message<\/a>.\u00a0 Honestly, two months after Greenpeace creates a crop circle depicting a wind turbine, a turbine is taken out by aliens &#8212; can that really be coincidence? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m writing about this, I&#8217;d like to pick up on something that Russ Kellett, of the Flying Saucer Bureau, was quoted by the BBC as saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To hit two of the blades, any object must have been about 170ft long.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Couldn&#8217;t it have been travelling along the plane of the blades rather than directly face-on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We use Ecotricity for electricity supply in our household, as they use the money we pay them to build new wind turbines.\u00a0 Annoyingly, aliens are wrecking them. 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