Elizabeth Mills medal 5000 1 year 344 days ago
The problem with wind turbines is that, if the wind blows from behind them, they go backwards and suck all the electricity out of the grid.
Full Throttle X medal 5000 1 year 344 days ago
Lil
The fact this is still going ???
Shut up Lil ?
Timothy Barry medal 5629 1 year 344 days ago
José
NO WAY
Are you saying no toracingat Zandvort? That is a dutch track (in the land of the windmills).
José Trujillo medal 6083 Community Manager 1 year 344 days ago
Timothy
Are you saying no toracingat Zandvort? That is a dutch track (in the land of the windmills).
I'm more Dutch than tulips
Timothy Barry medal 5629 1 year 343 days ago
José
Timothy
Are you saying no toracingat Zandvort? That is a dutch track (in the land of the windmills).
I'm more Dutch than tulips
So, your stance on windmills is mellowing, Josè?
Full Throttle X medal 5000 1 year 342 days ago
Still waiting for the windmill hat announcement…. Hopefully it’s in time for Christmas ??
Connor Cooper medal 4923 Super Mod 1 year 342 days ago
I don't want a lot for Christmas
There is just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents underneath the Christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is a windmill hat in iGP.
Steven Clift medal 5000 1 year 342 days ago
Connor
I don't want a lot for Christmas
There is just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents underneath the Christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is a windmill hat in iGP.
You missed some lines ? ? ?
Connor Cooper medal 4923 Super Mod 1 year 342 days ago
I thought that putting even a section of Christmas music on the forum was pushing my luck a bit. Some poor manager is going to read that in July and complain that I'm playing Christmas music too early. ?
Timothy Barry medal 5629 1 year 341 days ago
Connor
I thought that putting even a section of Christmas music on the forum was pushing my luck a bit. Some poor manager is going to read that in July and complain that I'm playing Christmas music too early. ?
Yer. That would be me.
You are OK for now, though...
Full Throttle X medal 5000 1 year 341 days ago
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad
Prospero Ano y Windmill Hat
Ovih Sapiens medal 5304 SUPPORT AGENT 1 year 341 days ago
Connor
I don't want a lot for Christmas
There is just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents underneath the Christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is a windmill hat in iGP.
:-)
Connor Cooper medal 4923 Super Mod 1 year 341 days ago
Snow is falling
All around me
Children playing
Having fun
It's the season
Love and understanding
Merry Christmas everyone
Time for parties and celebrations (after windmill hats were introduced)
People dancing all night long
Time for presents
And exchanging kisses
Time for singing Christmas songs
We're gonna have a party tonight
I'm gonna find that girl underneath the windmill blades
We'll kiss by the local 'mill.
Steven Clift medal 5000 1 year 341 days ago
Connor
Snow is falling
All around me
Children playing
Having fun
It's the season
Love and understanding
Merry Christmas everyone
Time for parties and celebrations (after windmill hats were introduced)
People dancing all night long
Time for presents
And exchanging kisses
Time for singing Christmas songs
We're gonna have a party tonight
I'm gonna find that girl underneath the windmill blades
We'll kiss by the local 'mill.
The irony of that is right now where I live it's snowing
Connor Cooper medal 4923 Super Mod 1 year 341 days ago
Snowing? Surely you mean 5.0mm Thunderstorms? ?
Stephano Leuzzi medal 4876 1 year 340 days ago
Wait. Aren’t windmills and turbines different things? I always thought of turbines as the things that generate electricity and windmills as the things that mill grain.
Steven Clift medal 5000 1 year 340 days ago
Stephano
Wait. Aren’t windmills and turbines different things? I always thought of turbines as the things that generate electricity and windmills as the things that mill grain.
They are indeed two different things
Frank Thomas medal 4981 Moderator 1 year 339 days ago (Last edited by
Frank Thomas 1 year 339 days ago)
Yes and no, usually wind turbines is used only for those modern electricity generating builds. However traditional windmills are not only mills as for producing flour. They were used for many things requiring mechanical power like actual mills (grains, oil), saw mills, hammer mills (forge), most importantly for people living in low areas, like the Netherlands, pumping water out of the country so people can go about with dry feet, and later also, often converted, producing electricity as they were often found on wide open lands that weren't the most priority spaces to be connected to the grid.
So yes, wind turbines are quite different to windmills, but no, while modern engineering materials give them a complete different look and they pretty much solely produce electricity that invention of electricity use just made it possible to disconnect the workload from the powered shaft and locate it at a more convenient place, so wind turbines are just the modern version of windmills. Despite the engineering unfortunately not as fascinating as a Mercedes W13 that holds better against its predecessor Mercedes 35HP, although I suppose if everyone, especially the neighbor going to work at 4 AM, had one the W13 wouldn't be that interesting anymore either.