From the date the fire on Maui was made public I noticed an increase in professional opinions here, regarding the events. Many new accounts and not so new accounts came out in full force giving cookie cutter explanations for what happened, including some who claim to have worked on DEW. Or saying that lasers couldn’t be the cause of the fire, while also ignoring that visible lasers are not the only form of DEW capability. Some use lasers, some use microwaves, some use gamaray, some use pressure waves/sound, some use X-rays.. but they all focused in on lasers and why there was no way it could have been that. Reminds me of the guy in the black shirt doing that interview on the street shortly after the World Trade Center collapse, dude had the entire scripted story ready to go while people where still trying to make sense of what happened.
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possible, but highly implausible. While it's technically possible to run a generator backwards by applying power to it, or use a motor as a generator by applying mechanical force to it, both are highly inefficient when used in the opposite direction of their intended purpose.
not to mention the blades arent really made for that purpose. If you ever look at the blades on a bladed fan they're almost always fairly chunky, designed to scoop up as much air as possible and move it forward.
The blades on a windmill seem to be just about the opposite (when accounting for scale), aerodynamic surfaces that are almost delicate looking, designed to be pushed by the wind rather than to push the wind.
you also have to keep in mind that most of the time, windmills don't move very fast, unless the winds themselves are pretty impressive, so running them in reverse to produce anything like hurricane-force winds would very likely signal the death of the generator pretty quickly, assuming the gearbox itself didn't fail from being run backwards from its intended use.
again, not impossible, just highly unlikely.