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  2. Panemone windmill - Wikipedia

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    It is a rudimentary and inefficient type of windmill [1]. That is, a panemone primarily uses drag whereas the blades of a HAWT use lift. [1] Historically the earliest known wind machine was made by the Persians and it was the panemone design, consisting of a wall, with slits, surrounding a vertical axle containing four to eight fabric sails.

  3. History of wind power - Wikipedia

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    Offshore wind power began to expand beyond fixed-bottom, shallow-water turbines beginning late in the first decade of the 2000s. The world's first operational deep-water large-capacity floating wind turbine , Hywind, became operational in the North Sea off Norway in late 2009 [ 64 ] [ 65 ] at a cost of some 400 million kroner (around US$ 62 ...

  4. Windmill - Wikipedia

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    The windmills at Kinderdijk in the village of Kinderdijk, Netherlands is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, by tradition specifically to mill grain (), but in some parts of the English-speaking world, the term has also been extended to encompass windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications.

  5. Bangui Wind Farm - Wikipedia

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    The Bangui Wind Farm is a wind farm in Bangui, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. The wind farm uses 20 units of 70-meter (230 ft) high Vestas V82 1.65 MW wind turbines , arranged in a single row stretching along a 9-kilometer (5.6 mi) shoreline of Bangui Bay, facing the South China Sea .

  6. Wind power in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Burgos Wind Farm.It is currently the largest wind farm in the Philippines, providing 150MW of power to residents of Burgos, Ilocos Norte. Wind power in the Philippines accounts for a total of 443MW as of 2020 according to the Department of Energy, covering about 1.6% of the country's total installed capacity for both renewable and non-renewable energy sources. [1]

  7. Wind power - Wikipedia

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    Wind-powered machines used to grind grain and pump water, the windmill and wind pump, were developed in what is now Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan by the 9th century. [ 186 ] [ 187 ] Wind power was widely available and not confined to the banks of fast-flowing streams, or later, requiring sources of fuel.

  8. The next leg of the new moon race is about to kick off — and ...

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    The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket slated to launch landers for both Firefly and Ispace is set to liftoff as soon as 1:11 a.m. ET Wednesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

  9. Daniel Halladay - Wikipedia

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    His invention of the windmill was a crucial key to the old steam trains as back then, they were mainly powered by water, so the water pumping mechanism (the windmill) helped the advance of trains. Versions of this windmill became an iconic part of the rural landscape in the United States, [ 6 ] Argentina, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa ...