Can we please, please stop calling turbines "windmills"? If you're milling grain, fine, but absolutely no one is installing 300m turbines to make flour.
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While I agree the term "windmill" makes no sense, this is unfortunately a losing battle.
Yeah, choose your battles — don't fight windmills 😏
no one is installing 300m turbines to make flour.
Hold my beer
Dude, you want to do that, you do you. But I have a beer in hand, and this still seems like a terrible idea.
I bet that some where there's an electric mill that gets most of it's power from a local wind farm sometimes.
Oh, no doubt. But it's a serious capex situation for colocation.
it’s all churning in the windmills of my mind
🎶Summer breeze, makes me feel fine 🎶
Round, like a circle in a spiral ...
I'm sure it's been done before, but just in case it hasn't: Donald Quixote 😅
I hate that pinball table. It's always erroneously reporting "tilt."