Testing whalepower and other post pumping services..

Hello steemians, tonight I was going to discuss something that deserves to be in my minnow journal, but as usual you read about one thing,
and you get a bright idea to write about another.

We hear a lot about minnows needing votes, and I am no exception. So I looked and asked for help. Because of reaching out I was able to get my first + Double Digit post! Then hard fork showed up and made it triple digits!

However creating such posts are difficult. I have used @minnowsupport, which basically pumps up your vote with a bunch of 1cent % bots.. and it's nice and all, but I kinda wish all those bots were a real audience. Artificial in success perhaps.. but every little bit helps so long as you use it to advance. Thanks @minnowsupport !

I then tested out Randowhale. It can definitely pay off, but you need to have $2.00 SBD handy! Sometimes minnows who start from 0 have to trade off early SBD to just pump up their Steem Power. Once I got back to a reasonable level as a n00b I started trying out @randowhale and I was pleasantly surprised. Some post went up %150 and others I basically broke even. If you want to boost your post definitely try @randowhale.

So my last test for my journal is... whalepower. The individual behind this @bullionstackers. From what I have read
and understand is that he is running a free curation service. All you have to do is ask to be registered and then tag a post #whalepower (without the #).

I checked out the tag and there are quiet a bit of successfull payouts! So here I am doing more research. I decided to do my first whalepower hashtag in this post. The results should be interesting.

So here is my actual post!
I googled whalepower and this came up:

Coincidence? I mean think about it. Steem is a lot like wind power. The air, or in this case the steem always keeps flowing; it just depends on how much wind (or posting) is going happening to keep the turbines going (and thus the spice flows $$)

So why whales?

Tubercle Technology and wind turbines were made for each other. Tubercles allow turbines to overcome the three major limitations of wind power:

• The flow of air is not there or slow
• Turbines can be loud
• Poor ergonomics and engineering slow power input

The idea is this: Humpback whales tilt their fins at steep angles for better lift in the water. So why not incorporate these ergonomics into a wind turbine! It will help increase a wind turbine in all three noted limitations noted above.

What occurred during my epiphany was that I had read before that wind turbines were ineffective. Take a look at this telegraph article:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/windpower/10524840/Councils-waste-millions-on-ineffective-wind-turbines-that-will-take-190-years-to-repay.html

Electrical ultilities use a rule of thumb: For every 200 megawatts of wind you need at least 100 megawatts of coal.

So back to the whalepower turbine. Testing on the tubercle-enhanced blades began in 2007 at The Wind Energy Institute of Canada in Prince Edward Island. Unfortunately there isn't much more on this new technology since 2009!
So for almost 10 years, I guess without any further updates.. the whalepower concept is still in minnowsupport!

So if whalepower is not exactly proliferating, what's up with the newest wind power?

Well according to some research a Spanish company called Vortex Bladeless has produced a wind turbine that takes advantage of the vortices produced when wind moves around an obstacle. So basically there are many projects being researched to change the ergonomics of what we currently have running out there.

But of course with any new innovation, you also have the debunkers:

Another company sets out for high altitude collection of wind. However this video dates back to 2009:

So I guess that leaves us in the air (no pun intended). However the future does tell us that ergonomics are the answer, and engineers are actively looking for new solutions. After all, the current technology out was more than likely made by political funding/connections, wasteful land use, and crumby engineering.

If you have more to add on this subject you are always welcome to comment!

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Thanks,
BB613