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Wind turbines, they are not milling anything. One would have hoped that a paper like NYT would something as basic as that right.
by macmac 8y ago
Wind turbines, they are not milling anything. One would have hoped that a paper like NYT would something as basic as that right.
- na85 8y agoReferring to HAWTs by the name "windmill" is part of the common vernacular in North America
- amarant 8y agoagreed! my first thought was someone had rigged electric generators in the old actual windmills of the Netherlands. My second thought was, last I checked, they're not remotely as big as jumbo's....
- OscarCunningham 8y agoThey're milling electricity.
- Brakenshire 8y agoMilling electromagnetic fields, and producing electricity.
- coryfklein 8y agoOh god what have you guys done to my native tongue.
- shawabawa3 8y agoWindmill is a defacto synonym for wind turbines in most english speaking countries
- whamlastxmas 8y agoIn the same way irregardless is a synonym for regardless, yeah I guess so.
- yongjik 8y agoMore like how a "bug" is a synonym for "error in a program", even though there's no actual bug stuck between vacuum tubes, not to mention there are no vacuum tubes any more, and they don't do computation like they did in the 50s any more, but I feel your pain.
- macmac 8y agoNot in the industry.
- coryfklein 8y agoGood thing the NYT article isn't a whitepaper directed at industry engineers.
- cjarrett 8y agoI worked in the industry for three summers, and they were interchangeable there. Additionally, they could be 'tur-bans' or 'tur-bines' as well.
- dredmorbius 8y agoThey're milling electrons ;-)
- r00fus 8y agoBut then how would we keep the Don Quixote imagery?