I dig your ideas and and stance on looking for a solution. I don't think windmills go fast enough to achieve that effect, though just blinking LED strips might do the trick. I'm no bird lawyer per se, but I do believe their sight is different to ours.
You got my fantasy going, so now I'm imagining the windmills spouting some artificial clouds into the wind and lasers displaying birds of prey into the mist.
Lenovo builds are usually solid, but I only have anecdotal evidence on their notebook line. If the win license is the only thing pushing you in that direction, you might want to consider the grey market for windows keys and just build something to your liking.
Bird stickers on the blade?
It's mostly a dog whistle to get folks riled up about supporting gypsies. Even if we take worst case scenarios, a whole hoard of freeloaders is less stress on society than 1 rich bastard getting away with taxes.
We are lazy! But that's an evolutional advantage to save energy. We don't necessarily need money, but let's not act like the path of least resistance isn't a thing.
I mostly agree with you, but we shouldn't leave anything in our blind spots.
I don't envy you. Are you hoping to make something that is more for the locals, or are you thinking along couchsurfing/warmshowers style community building as well? Like commune community?
You are totally right. The legacy of ownership, basically.
The thing is, I'd rather try coming at the problem from empathy. On one hand, it is full-on exploitation. On the other, some dude got to a place in life where he has stewardship of 40 acres in a hypercapitalistic, lonely world.
It's kinda like the will is there, but he is blind to those characteristics that make it impossible. I always boil it down to a mental health/neurosis issue, but that's probably more about me dealing with my own demons.
It feels the like the need is there for the people with means, we just have to kinda redefine the social contract that isn't as spooky as straight out 'taking everything'.
Important distinction.
A friend who has a huge plot is struggling with this. 'Just' a communal garden does not build a community. He is kinda harshed by the food stamp system, because the drifters don't need to work for food anymore, just quarter. I feel he still has a pretty feudalistic view, but he is the closest thing I know to someone trying to actually build along solarpunk lines.
I kinda see why he is not attracting a community, despite craving it so much and being a pretty okay guy. I think it's a case where he can't really create coziness for himself, so the place generally lacks it. This combined with people currently craving belonging more than healthy foodstuffs and working with soil leaves all this potential untapped. I'm sure in cities it would be different, but this is where I am seeing the struggle.
Which makes the above shade all the more disheartening to any literate Hungarians coming this way.
I don't think he visits these forums.
Without any googling whatsoever I am pretty sure there have been studies on the matter. My guess is either there is no trivial solution or something that would go against efficiency.
There is definitely a big alternative wind energy movement about. I've seen designs on small scale that basically just wobble and generate power. Maybe we have to step back a bit, before we can go full in. We can't have slowly rotating blades chop up our birdies.