rule turbines

Am I alone in thinking wind turbines look pretty cool?

At least oil derricks aren't regularly attacked by Spanish knights suffering from dementia.

Do you see these wind turbines? Disgusting! An asparagus-isation of the landscape!

Could we live without the beauty of open cut coal mines?

Pumpjacks do have some interesting design features. Everyone knows about the counterweight lever action, but it also has a neat check valve system in the well itself. Think of a toilet reservoir stopper but with another in the tank with a reciprocating piston up and down the height of the tank and a side pipe. The downward action causes the bottom plunger to close by the hydraulic force of the fluid and prevents flow back into the well or through the side channel.

Likewise on the upstroke, the suction action opens the top and bottom valve and sucks the fluid upwards like in a drinking straw until it reaches the top of the stroke, then pushes the fluid through the side channel on the next downstroke which then connects farther up the pipe, which then goes up again on the upstroke. This is all done by hydraulic pressure in the well and has no moving machinery (other than the motor aboveground) and only needs periodic O-ring replacement.

Thus, it is acting as a positive displacement pump (like a heart beating in a sense but less complicated).

How much until the oil industry starts to install solar/wind on their drilling sites and plants to green wash themselves?

Just imagine a wind mill among this beautiful plumpers, disgusting!

Where in the world are pumpjacks clustered like that? There's got to be dozens of them!

All these filthy lube machines looking like rats fucking in the sand.

I'm a big fan of wind turbines, but if you happen to dislike both, the oil drillers are usually a lot more clustered and overall fewer.

did don quixote make that

Such an eye sore, really.