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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah, give our wind back you patat and wafel eating neighbors! We have the wind GEKOLONISEERD!

What a load of bullshit. It's fucking wind. Enough for all of us.

I like our southern neighbors (well, onky the Flamish). We should work together more instead of making these bullshit claims to fucking wind.

[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Verzijlbergh explained that Belgian wind farms have an advantage over Dutch ones. “They are located southwest of the Dutch parks and the wind often comes from the southwest, so you often steal some of our wind,” he said.

Umm, my guy. It sounds like it's their wind and they graciously pass on their leftovers instead of "extracting" all of the wind.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was then that the Dutch poldered the Netherlands out to upwind of the Belgian wind farms.

[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Would be such a power move.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Peak old man yells at clouds.

[–] LorIps@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

They're gonna steal them next!

[–] thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago

Im sending them my farts

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

How did they catch wind of this?

[–] scroll_responsibly 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There’s a fart joke here somewhere…

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago

"But it turned out the French were the ones producing it all along."

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

ooooo those Belgians! That's why they have those little twirly moustaches!

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago
[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just ask them to spin the windmills in reverse 3% of the time

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[–] Goten@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In an interview with Belgian broadcaster VRT, Verzijlbergh said: “A wind turbine is designed to extract wind from the air. If you measure behind a wind turbine, the wind blows less hard. Behind a wind farm with many wind turbines together, you really see lower wind speeds.”

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

Just don't break it, before you send the wind onwards to me...

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

They’ll never have more trumps than the US.

[–] KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

For fuck's sake... it starts...

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Next thing we know they'll be accusing chestnuts of being lazy.