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For more than 1,100 years, enterprising individuals have conceived, built, and perfected devices to harness energy from the wind and convert this captured energy into useful work. Machine configurations have been as varied, and sometimes as bizarre, as the human imagination. Many designs have failed or proven inefficient; a handful have stood and continue to stand the tests of time, performance, and constant exposure to nature’s elements.
Besides raising ground water to the surface, windmills have been used to grind grain, energize textile mills,
drain land for agriculture, saw wood, desalinate water, provide corrosion protection for underground pipelines, power remote telecommunication equipment, sailboats, and hunting cabins, and, at least once, to make cognac.
For all the measurable work that windmills accomplish, they have another benefit more difficult to quantify: they fascinate and captivate us. A little breeze stirs. A big wheel begins to turn. The wind shifts and, nudged
by unseen forces, the wheel rotates to face it more squarely. Gears, shafts, and rods start to move. Water flows, electricity is generated, machines come to life. Standing between earth and sky, windmills perform the alchemy of changing the invisible into the tangible. And all we have to do is…..watch.
We’ve included a few subjects on the left that may interest you. You can find out how a water-pumping windmill works, a discussion of the economics of windmills, and a list of other windmill-related Websites.
Enjoy.
Besides raising ground water to the surface, windmills have been used to grind grain, energize textile mills,
drain land for agriculture, saw wood, desalinate water, provide corrosion protection for underground pipelines, power remote telecommunication equipment, sailboats, and hunting cabins, and, at least once, to make cognac.
For all the measurable work that windmills accomplish, they have another benefit more difficult to quantify: they fascinate and captivate us. A little breeze stirs. A big wheel begins to turn. The wind shifts and, nudged
by unseen forces, the wheel rotates to face it more squarely. Gears, shafts, and rods start to move. Water flows, electricity is generated, machines come to life. Standing between earth and sky, windmills perform the alchemy of changing the invisible into the tangible. And all we have to do is…..watch.
We’ve included a few subjects on the left that may interest you. You can find out how a water-pumping windmill works, a discussion of the economics of windmills, and a list of other windmill-related Websites.
Enjoy.
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