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This is a list of "traditional" windmills in the United States, which usually are gristmills. In this nation more than others, "windmill" is often used to refer to what are properly termed windpumps bringing up water for agriculture.
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.
The Ponnequin Wind Farm on the Colorado-Wyoming border in Weld County was the state's earliest large-scale wind farm built to a capacity of 25.3 MW during the 1990s and decommissioned starting 2015. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] It was surpassed in 2001 by the first phase of the Peetz Table Wind Complex at a capacity of just under 30 MW.
Another sixty windmills are erected on the grounds with many pumping water. Complementing the water pumping windmills are wind electric machines. Some of these date to the early 1920s. Dominating the windmill grounds is a Vestas V47 wind turbine. This 660 kW turbine stands on a 50-meter tower and provides (on a yearly average) all of the power ...
Most of these were corn mills (to grind flour), but almost any industrial process needing motive power, beyond that available from the muscles of men or animals, used a water wheel, unless a windmill was preferred.
Turbines at the Highland North Wind Farm in Cambria County, PA. In 2000, Pennsylvania's first commercial wind farm, the Green Mountain Wind Energy Center, was completed in Somerset County, but deactivated in 2015. [8] In 2006, the state legislature ruled that wind turbines and related equipment may not be included in property-tax assessments
Known building dates are in bold text. Non-bold text denotes first known date. Non-bold text denotes first known date. Iron windpumps are outside the scope of this list unless listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Trombone Champ is a trombone-based rhythm game developed and published by Holy Wow Studios, [2] [3] released on September 15, 2022. [4] Similar in gameplay to rhythm game titles Guitar Hero and Wii Music, players are tasked with timing their input to music note prompts as they appear on screen, with greater accuracy yielding more points and a higher score.