Mr. Mathis highlighted this photo, calling it an obvious fake, which it is, and commenting that it looks like a “Hot Wheels mock-up, with square-edged cars and all the seams still showing.”
All that is true, but I add one more thing: The blade is not nearly long enough to service the windmills I see. Try this calculation for yourself: A typical truck bed is 8’6″. At 1PM in the photo, you’ll see a truck – perspective is completely distorted, but let’s run with it. On my screen, it is one-half inch wide. (All screens are different, but the relationship of images to one another should be the same.) The blade is about five inches, so that in real life that blade would be five divided by one-half (=10) times eight feet six inches, or 1,020 inches, or about 85 feet long.
A typical carbon-fiber wind turbine blade is about 350 feet long, or the length of a football field plus two ten-yard endzones plus the distance to the first row of seats where Green Bay Packers go to jump up after a touchdown.
So the blade above is only about 24% the length of a real blade. That is, unless the blade is being trucked to Lilliput.
PS: How did that blade wind up way over in the oncoming lane? All I can think is that the wind blew it.
Piece of Mindful 
One of my buddies in the Commercial/Business insurance industry tried to tell me that ONE, just a single one of those monstrosities goes for $10 million. I find that very hard to believe. As I cruise down I65 through Indiana, or I80 through Wyoming, there are installation “farms” of these things with a hundred units. A BILLION $… really? I tried pricing them, but never could find satisfactory data. Of course the life time of these things was way over estimated, and the maintenance costs out-of-sight. Additionally, through Indiana again, frequently less than half are spinning while their uninjured brethren struggle along. All for what Mark? – cuz they lie about the availability of both natural gas and crude oil… and the death to the birds. Typical money-grubbing nincompoops.
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AI programs can generate much better and realistic photos than that one. Wonder why they went with a blurry blocky amatuer one. Just a slow news day that needed a quicky story…
Local farmers in my area got $10k plus for each windmill installed on their property, the electricity it generates isn’t for the local town or nearby city, but a city 100’s of miles away.
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Or they are testing your intelligence, as Mathis says. There have been some really bad space fakes of late, the imagery just awful. I remember one particular that was a trench on Mars that looked just like an AK-47. I do wonder if that is the case, they are making people so blind to whats in front of them they have no idea how to distinguish reality from fake. Especially since the majority are conditioned to believe ANYTHING told to them by the media.
One particularly awful fake story I’m glad is over, because it was everywhere in Boston for years is the Karen Read story. Even if it wasn’t fake for the Boston Globe to have it in the front headlines for two years shows how bad journalism sucks now.
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