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Please call them wind turbines. Wind turbines don't mill anything.
by legulere 10y ago
Please call them wind turbines. Wind turbines don't mill anything.
- karmajunkie 10y agoPlease don't be so pedantic. It's quite clear what GP was talking about and strongly likely that they're also aware that nothing is being milled by the structures. Jumping in with an unnecessary correction to terminology doesn't add anything to the conversation.
- tombert 10y agoI thought the consensus at this point was that "windmill" basically meant "wind turbine", at least colloquially, in the same way that a "battery" really should be called a "cell".
- pjc50 10y agoI'd got the impression that "windmill" was the deliberately wrong use of terminology by people opposed to wind power to trivialise or ridicule it. But that may just be me reading the Telegraph.
- tombert 10y agoIn my particular case, it wasn't meant to be offensive or dismissive at all; I think wind turbines are very cool.
- nutheracc 10y agoI'm not part of that consensus. A mill mills.
- ourmandave 10y agoThe distinction is important when the Dutch patent trolls show up and demand a licensing fee.
- macmac 10y agoThe patent troll(s) in the the industry are mostly German and Danish.