Do you have windmills in your country?

[Bretrick]

Post pictures here of any windmills you come across in your travels.
Australia, being a drought prone country has many thousands of iconic Southern Cross Windmills across this wide brown land.
Since 1903, over 250,000 Southern Cross Windmills have been manufactured.
At the Gilgandra Museum in New South Wales a windmill is still operating 100 years after it was made.
Most windmills will have a water storage tank alongside.
Early instruction manual for the erection and maintenance of Southern Cross Windmills.
https://www.gvps.com.au/Tech_specs/...Z pattern windmills Instruction windmills.pdf
Windmill at Pinjarra - Western Australia


Windmill at West Pinjarra

 

[hollydolly]

yep loads of windmills across the uk.....these are just a few minutes from my house...

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Sure do.

 

[NotCompSavvy]

Yes a few windmill areas in Florida but the windmills are different then yours they look like sticks .

I think called turbine windmills but the styles above you see on farms .

 

[Bretrick]

yep loads of windmills across the uk.....these are just a few minutes from my house...

Those are used to grind grain?

 

[jujube]

There are still some old-timey windmills out in the country, but the majority of our windmills now are the gigantic modern ones you see stretching along the crests of hills, catching the breezes and generating electricity.

I remember my great-grandfather had one on his farm and when it turned, it made a screechy sound. All that one did was pump water from a well into a trough for the cows.

 

[Bretrick]

Yes a few windmill areas in Florida but the windmills are different then yours they look like sticks .

I think called turbine windmills but the styles above you see on farms .

Turbine windmills - used for generating power?

 

[NotCompSavvy]

Knowing nothing about them how efficient are windmills .

Can you run lets say a refrigerator on one ?

 

[NotCompSavvy]

Turbine windmills - used for generating power?

I do not know saw several years ago while fishing but do not know a thing about how they work .

 

[hollydolly]

this is an old not in use one, again just 2 minutes from my house but this time in Spain

 

[DebraMae]

My avatar shows my favorite photo. I took the picture in New Mexico a few years ago.

This one is at an old homestead also in New Mexico.

 

[Bretrick]

Knowing nothing about them how efficient are windmills .

Can you run lets say a refrigerator on one ?

Homes can have small power generation wind turbines to power the whole house.

 

[Bretrick]

My avatar shows my favorite photo. I took the picture in New Mexico a few years ago.

This one is at an old homestead also in New Mexico.
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Great photo there DebraMae

 

[NotCompSavvy]

Homes can have small power generation wind turbines to power the whole house.

Oh wow .

Wonder why not more popular .

 

[Bretrick]

I do not know saw several years ago while fishing but do not know a thing about how they work .

If there were dotted along the coastline then they would be power generating turbines.
We have them here in Australia as well.

 

[NotCompSavvy]

If there were dotted along the coastline then they would be power generating turbines.
We have them here in Australia as well.

Yes those are types I have seen here .

 

[hollydolly]

 

[Bretrick]

Oh wow .

Wonder why not more popular .

Not reliable. Wind is fickle. As we know, the wind is not constant.
Home turbines are used as a supplementary power source only.

 

[hollydolly]

this is one of the flour mills

 

[dobielvr]

If there were dotted along the coastline then they would be power generating turbines.
We have them here in Australia as well.

Yes, this is what we have here. There located in an area called Altamont Pass.. A low level mountain area to boost energy. We used to see them on a way up to San Francisco, Ca.

 

[Warrigal]

Knowing nothing about them how efficient are windmills .

Can you run lets say a refrigerator on one ?

You possibly could if you used the energy to work a generator or to charge a battery. Wasteful compared to solar panels. Useful in places well away from the equator, where the winds are strong and reliable.

 

[Aunt Bea]

https://windmill.com/

 

[horseless carriage]

Warwickshire's Chesterton Windmill, is an iconic monument, in the Warwickshire landscape and part of the UK's history. The restoration of the windmill’s sails means a lot to those who visit, and photograph it, and all are delighted to see the sails stand proudly on the windmill once more.

 

[Bretrick]

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American Windmill Museum

Plenty where you are.
Second from the left is different

 

[Bretrick]

A working Southern Cross Windmill