Japanese curse on wind turbines
I bet you didn’t know that Astro Boy, Phoenix, Black Jack, and other Osamu Tezuka manga characters are POWERfull.
The above photo of Osamu Tezuka manga characters emblazoned on the side of the wind generator is from ykanazawa1999’s photostream; better photos at pinktentacle.com’s Tezuka wind turbine.
Question:
I bet you don’t know the reason why Japan has fewer wind power generators than any of the other G-8 countries, do you?
Answer:
Though Japanese are universally deaf to right-wing sound trucks and blaring PA systems, wind power generators prohibited in most places because they make too much noise (or at least that’s what the Japanese nuclear power industry wants you to think).
The wind turbine has Tezuka’s manga characters on it is because the mighty forces of otaku/geekdom (2-Ch) can be marshaled to counteract the blanket refusal of use of such turbines by the local braindead-Japanese homeowners’ associations.
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October 23rd, 2009 at 11:39 pm
I like the astro boy in the tower. It let us remember the childhood. We should let more interesting pic in the towers.