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One small quibble - wind turbines produce electricity, wind mills mill grain. I know it's pedantic, but people in the industry get really irked when the machine
by jilopy 10y ago
One small quibble - wind turbines produce electricity, wind mills mill grain. I know it's pedantic, but people in the industry get really irked when the machines are referred to as windmills. I don't know why exactly, maybe due to the marketing difficulties of "mills" versus "turbines" or because engineers like precise terminology.
I guess the avout of Arbre would refer to the distinction as"bulshytt" though, so take from it what you will.
edit: Ah, I see this was discussed below under another parent. Apologies if anyone takes umbrage to the distinction discussion.
- xkcd-sucks 10y agoWindmills mill down gears/bearings into metal/ceramic powder. They produce toxic electricity as waste which is transported elsewhere for disposal.
- DavidWanjiru 10y agoPeople in the industry should realize that by windmill, we mean that big rotating thing. What it does with the rotation is not visible to us for us to need to make a distinction, and for the majority of their existence, those big rotating things were just windmills.
- overcast 10y agoYou're just being pedantic at that point. Wind turbine / mill is used interchangeably in the populace, and they are the ones you need to convince that these projects are viable.