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A partial view of the Windy Points/Windy Flats project. Hundreds of windmills can be seen in the background. The Windy Point/Windy Flats project is located in Goldendale, Washington, along the Columbia River some 100 miles (160 km) east of Portland, Oregon, 70 miles (100 km) south of Yakima, Washington, and 100 miles (160 km) west of the Tri-Cities.
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.
Around the time of World War I, American windmill makers were producing 100,000 farm windmills each year, mostly for water-pumping. [15] By the 1930s, use of wind turbines in rural areas was declining as the distribution system extended to those areas. [16] A forerunner of modern horizontal-axis wind generators was in service at Yalta, USSR, in ...
The Pollupalai and Vallimunai Wind Farms are two wind farms built together by Joule Power and Beta Power, on the north-eastern shore of the Jaffna Lagoon, in Pachchilaipalli, Sri Lanka. Both wind farms are owned by the parent company WindForce, and have an installed capacity of 12 megawatts each, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and an annual production of ...
Minecraft is a 2011 sandbox game developed and published by Swedish video game developer Mojang Studios. Originally created by Markus "Notch" Persson using the Java programming language, the first public alpha build was released on 17 May 2009. The game was continuously developed from then on, receiving a full release on 18 November 2011.
Wind power in Scania, Sweden Lillgrund Wind Farm in Sweden Electriciy produktion in Sweden with windpower 2004-2024 (TWh/year) Sweden has a total of 16.4 GW of wind power capacity at the end of 2023, the 5th highest in Europe and most per capita. [1] Wind power produced 20.9% of national electricity generation in 2023, up from 0.3% in 2000. [2]
Phase I & II, all 34 Wind turbines. Kaheawa Wind Power is one of the largest wind farms in Hawaii. It is located on the island of Maui above the town of Maalaea in the West Maui Mountains. Phase one (KWP I) of the project was completed in 2006 by developer and operator First Wind and produces 30 MW from 20 GE Energy 1.5 MW wind turbines. [2]
Windmill World: Braunston: Braunston Mill: Tower: c. 1800 [49] Truncated c. 1920 [49] Windmill World: Cottingham: 1536 1720 Windmill World: Cottingham Cottingham Mill: Tower: Late 18th century Truncated 1955 Windmill World: Finedon: Finedon Mill: Tower: c. 1818 [50] Windmill World: Great Brington: Titt iron wind engine: 1894 Hellidon: Hellidon Mill