There are two windmills behind husband's school. The prettier one, above, was built as a decorative piece on the edge of a new housing development with lots of little postage-stamp houses. I'm not sure if it turns in a breeze. If it does, it doesn't do anything with that energy. No pumping of water, no production of electricity. It's just there to give a homestead-ish good feeling to the people living nearby. It lends to the image of good country life, and that's all.
On the other hand, a new windmill that looks much like this stands tall right behind the elementary school. In a stiff breeze you can hear it hum; it's the sound of energy being turned into electricity which is delivered into the power grid. Inside the school lobby are two monitors donated by the local electric association which will report wind speed, energy produced, and other data to the 310+ little scholars passing by each day.And I could deliver up the analogies, but I'll leave them to my readers.
I for one prefer not to be a picturesque relic from the past...
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