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wolfkeeper53 karma

Presumably most of them are being gradually phased out for gas-fired power stations that don't produce any slag, and produce less pollution to boot.

wolfkeeper47 karma

Here is a complete list of all the times a place turned out to be haunted:

wolfkeeper34 karma

Technically, yes, unless the trick is being paid to hide the sausage, that's a trick.

wolfkeeper12 karma

There's many different designs for the generators, some of the bigger wind turbines don't use neodymium at all, they use induction generators, precisely for that reason. Some of the very latest and biggest designs use superconductors, but they haven't been deployed yet, they are advantageous in that they don't need gearboxes.

wolfkeeper9 karma

To be strictly accurate, it has been known for some vaccines to cause this on very rare occasions, but the thing you're vaccinating against causes it way, way, way more often.

The vaccine manufacturers are on the lookout for this kind of thing and if they discover it's happening, they swap the vaccine for a different one.

The wild flu viruses are wayyyyy worse for this.