The Niagara wineries have just such windmills, which are gas powered and pointed down to blow away/dissipate early frosts and save the vines.
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 2:54 PM, Greg Fiorentino via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Yeah, the box fans idea is silly. A better plan would be to use all the > wind generators, power them up to blow air instead of generate power, and > point them at Canada. That would move a lot of smoke! > > People (other than antifa) around here have been wearing masks lately! > > Greg > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Andrew > Strasfogel via Mercedes > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 11:43 AM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Cc: Andrew Strasfogel > Subject: [MBZ] OT: A new law of thermodynamics > > 'Ridiculous' Spokane event calls for blowing smoke to CanadaPublished: > Wednesday, August 22, 2018 > > A Facebook event that's planned for noon Friday calls for Spokane, Wash., > residents to put at least five box fans on their roofs, set them on high > and point them toward "northeastern Canada." > > The effort is meant to blow wildfire smoke across the U.S. border. > > Caleb Moon, a Spokane resident and the organizer of the event titled "Blow > Spokane's Smoke Away to Canada," says he's serious. > > "We figure a small box fan can move smoke about 6 feet, so if you put > 500,000 of them together, you can do the math on that, we can probably get > it pretty far into Canada," Moon said, acknowledging that his love of > hockey and Canadian bacon makes him feel bad that there's no other > solution. > > The plan won't work and is "very ridiculous," says Sarah Henderson, senior > environmental health scientist at the British Columbia Centre for Disease > Control. > > "One sort of floor fan could move a little smoke around, but there's no way > that a large group of fans is going to move as much smoke as there actually > is," she told Global News. > > One fan has a radius of influence of about 10 feet, she added. > > "So all it's going to do is clear smoke, maybe, out of that 10 feet, but a > fan also pulls. It doesn't just push air, it pulls air through it." > > California wildfires are contributing to the smoke in Spokane. > > The smoke is expected to start clearing in western Washington tomorrow and > eastern Washington on Friday (Ferreras/Lazatin, Global News > <https://globalnews.ca/news/4398753/spokane-fan-wildfire-smoke-canada/>, > Aug. 20). *— CC* > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
