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Windmill
A machine
that converts
the energy of wind
into rotational energy...
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| Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood |
...by means of vanes
called sails.
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| ADJUSTING THE SAILS. Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood |
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| Miller adjusts sails of Vermeer Windmill, Largest Working Windmill in USA. Copyright 2012 Marcia Norwood |
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| IN THE SAIL: Faith, Sarah, Megan, Tammy with the Miller. Copyright 2012 Marcia Norwood |
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| IN THE WINDMILL SAIL: Faith, Sarah, Megan, Tammy. Copyright 2012 Marcia Norwood |
Originally,
windmills were developed
for milling grain for food production.
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| Inside the Vermeer Windmill. Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood |
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| Stone Ground Whole Wheat Flour made at the Vermeer Windmill. Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood |
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| Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood |
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| Stone Ground Whole Wheat Flour made at the Vermeer Windmill. Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood |
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| Inside Windmill. Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood |
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| Stone Ground Whole Wheat Flour made at the Vermeer Windmill. Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood |
Windmill machinery has adapted to many other industrial uses...like pumping water, either for land drainage or to extract groundwater.
| Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood |
The windwheel of the Greek engineer Heron of Alexandria in the first century AD is the earliest known instance of using a wind-driven wheel to power a machine.
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| Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood |
"Designs are increasingly winning competitions
because they
are literally green,and because somewhere
they feature a small windmill."
Rem Koolhaas
Remment Lucas "Rem" Koolhaas (Born 1944)
Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Founding partner of OMA, and its research-oriented counterpart AMO, currently based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He co-founded Volume Magazine together with Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman. Rem Koohaas won the Pritzker Prize in 2000. In 2008, Time put him in their top 100 of The World's Most Influential People.
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| Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood |
Holland
Song
Hilda
Conkling
For a
Dutch Picture
When light comes creeping through the
That shine with mist,
When winds blow soft,
Windmills wake and whirl.
In Holland, in Holland,
Everything is cheerful
Across the sea:
When light comes creeping through the
That shine with mist,
When winds blow soft,
Windmills wake and whirl.
In Holland, in Holland,
Everything is cheerful
Across the sea:
White nets are beside the water
Where ships sail by.
The mountains begin to get blue,
The Dutch girls begin to sing,
The windmills begin to whirl.
Then night comes
The mountains turn dark gray
And faint away into night.
Not a bird chirps his song.
All is drowsy,
All is strange,
With the moon and stars
shining round the world:
The wind stops,
The windmills stop
In Holland . . .
The wind stops,
The windmills stop
In Holland . . .
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| Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood |
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| Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood |
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| Windmill at Kansas City Zoo. Copyright 2012 Marcia Norwood |
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| Kansas City Zoo Windmill. Copyright 2012 Marcia Norwood |
The Most Amazing Windmills in the World
CLICK on the link or COPY & PASTE the link in your browser:
http://www.mywindpowersystem.com/2009/05/23/the-most-amazing-wind-turbines-designs/
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| STONE Windmill. Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood |
The Wind Program
CLICK on the link or COPY & PASTE the link in your browser:
http://energy.gov/eere/renewable-electricity-generation/wind
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| Windmill at Powell Gardens. Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood |
WIND POWER
Sustainable Energy
Wind power is safe, clean and
increasingly affordable –
with the potential for production on a much
larger scale.
CLICK on the link or COPY & PASTE the link in your browser:
http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9024940&contentId=7046497
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| Windmill at Powell Gardens. Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood |
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| Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood |
Dreaming of windmills...
and no electric bills.
Thanks for stopping by!
Come back often, and bring a friend!
Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking
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| Megan, Marcia, Sarah and Faith. Copyright 2012 Marcia Norwood |
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