A foolish way to die, but that exposed end of the concrete barrier is unforgivable.

Slashdot is one of the very few sites that I choose to allow ads. That's about to change.

Well this should be fun:

The upfront investment can be substantial—a single 3.5 MW commercial turbine costs over £3.13 million to build. However, those turbines can generate between £2.79 million and £7.1 million per year in revenue. Source

Strike One.

Here's an article on the US DOE's own web site about advances in recycling turbine blades and composites.

Strike Two.

I've heard of farmed salmon, but I don't think that's what you are referring to. These are OFFSHORE wind farms. No farmers, no fences, no trucks. Please stay on topic.

Jumpin Jesus! Holy cow!

How many gallons of oil does a coal plant use for lubrication and all the diesel equipment to move coal around, and move the waste ash around? How many gallons of oil does a diesel generator use over it's lifetime, and how many kW of energy does it create with substantially more oil used?

THE TURBINE DOESN'T BURN THE OIL TO MAKE ENERGY. You apparently know this, since you hinted that it's used for cooling. It's not used in evaporative cooling, so that same 300 ga. of oil will be there until the decommissioning of the turbine.

Strike Three.

You then go on to make a bunch of baseless assumptions that are loosely correlated to the above, which I've already shown to be monumentally stupid.

Now only if there was some way they could mount something besides radar on the turbines themselves to use for confirmation if you're getting signal of something that shouldn't be there. Like some cameras that use light instead of sound to detect things.

The sitting President is a know-nothing idiot who's primary motivation for basically anything is revenge and retribution.

He hates wind power because Scotland had the audacity to grant permission for a few windmills within site of his precious golf course. That's the "classified" reason he hates wind energy, and he's too fucking stupid to realize that offshore wind won't be seen by anyone that isn't in a boat, miles away from land.

Distribution and creation were already merged with NBC Universal Comcast.

This is just playing catch-up.

Anyone playing the long game doesn't give a fuck who the sitting president is, because your hundreds of billions of net worth matter to anyone who can potentially get the job.

Reasons that matter, like "I don't want that shit on my TV, and it wasn't a 'feature' when I bought it and now you are shoving it down my throat" ?

Pretty sure I covered that in my objection if you read a little more context into it.

Not that it matters too much for me - the only LG TV in my house is in a guest bedroom, with a Google Chromecast hanging off of it so nobody ever has to deal with the dumpster fire UI that is WebOS and their unusable "I thought the Diamond Multimedia Gyromouse Pro from 1999 was awesome so we resurrected the absolute inaccuracy and shitty user experience" remote.

LG can do whatever they want, because I don't buy their crap products unless I have an absolute way to disable any of their software from ever being seen or used.

So use a container if it's that much of a problem.

Just bring your dependencies with you.

Because power outages, or signal controller outages never happen?

No. Traffic signals being out is a very down-the-middle case they should have accounted for.

I thought the first movie was essentially Pocahontas with blue people. I haven't seen the others.

As a nomad traveling around with a phone and ancient Surface

Ugh, I think no matters what happens, you lose. If your car has a CD player and is the main place where you usually listen to music, then it seems you would need to keep your CD collection in the car too, and that puts an upper limit on its size. Between the back seats and trunk, I could maybe fit a dozen or two beer-cases-repurposed-as-CD-boxes, but it would completely take over those spaces. And keeping even that small of a subset of the collection organized enough to be binary-searchable sure sounds annoying.

That was always the problem with CDs as a playback medium instead of just a long-term storage medium: inserting the CD back into the collection after playback. It's not terrible when you have shelving [and enough of it, since it keeps growing] but as soon as you have to pack things in boxes, it gets pretty hard to work with. I remember for a time there, before I had all my music ripped, where we were just listening to same 30 or 40 CDs sitting out in a loose unboxed pile that I jokingly called the "L1 music cache," over and over again. ;-)

Elsewhere you mention that you live in the car and simply don't have anywhere else to store things, so I guess this general kind of problem is going to be recurring. (Where do you keep your air fryer and microwave and coffee maker and stove and your wife's decorative bathroom hand towels that you're supposed to never use, the cat litter box, and the air mattress you put out when you have company staying over at your car for the weekend?) j/k but my point is that the cars have never been really CD friendly but if the car is your house and storage shed too, then .. oy, do whatever you can but it's never going to be convenient.

Music can't be the only thing where the market isn't catering to you. I might even go as far as suggesting the housing market as the number one mis-cater!

do you see how .. the decision to take [CD players] away seems much more to do with power and selling subscriptions than practical engineering capability?

Oh, sure! I didn't know that you couldn't get car CDs players anymore (I'm admittedly very out of touch with the new car market), but it doesn't surprise me that they're no longer something you can just take for granted by default. No doubt pushing subscription services played a later role in de-emphasizing CD players in cars, but you should keep in mind that real consumer demand had been doing that too, ever since around the turn of the century when HD-based MP3 players started to get popular. Subscriptions to proprietary streaming services are a bit of a late-comer to the CD funeral.

Even if there were no such thing as music streaming subscriptions, a lot of people today would be using their phones even in CD-ready cars. They would just party like it's 2001, playing files ripped from CDs. I don't know if that would be enough to remove CD players from cars, but I bet at least some manufacturers would have.

Rails doesn't scale.

If you don't have a CD drive, then you don't get to rip CDs. You'll have to acquire your files some other way. And/or buy a CD drive.

How can I rip CDs to a phone?

You don't. You rip them to your fileserver at home, and run a subsonic-API server on that. The phone connects to it over a VPN, and a subsonic API player plays it to the car with bluetooth.