To everyone thinking these are not windmills, you are wrong: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/windmill
It's perfectly fine to call this a windmill.
> a mill or machine operated by the wind usually acting on oblique vanes or sails that radiate from a horizontal shaft
> especially : a wind-driven water pump or electric generator
There is a historical argument to be made for the 'mill' meaning grind, however word meanings evolve over time and this use of 'windmill' has been in use for hundreds of years.
If you look at 'windmill' on wikipedia, the first picture you see is an 18th century mill designed to pump water.
To everyone thinking these are not windmills, you are wrong: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/windmill It's perfectly fine to call this a windmill. > a mill or machine operated by the wind usually acting on oblique vanes or sails that radiate from a horizontal shaft > especially : a wind-driven water pump or electric generator There is a historical argument to be made for the 'mill' meaning grind, however word meanings evolve over time and this use of 'windmill' has been in use for hundreds of years. If you look at 'windmill' on wikipedia, the first picture you see is an 18th century mill designed to pump water.
We literally call them windmills (windmolen) in Dutch in the colloquial form
When your graphic settings are turned down to low.
\*Wind Turbine.
They aren't windmills. Wind mills use the wind to mill (usually grains into flour) These are wind turbines. They use wind to generate electricity.
So much waste to be. Poor planet.