¶ Windmill (1)
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Windmill:
"I have a project going on windmills. Men began to give up windmills when they began to burn their fossil fuels. Burning up fossil fuels, because those are the energies impounded by the vegetation and buried deeply in the soil. We are part of the Universe, this planet is, where energies are being collected, some day to become a star. And we are only really entitled to use a very little of our savings account energy-- to get things going but not to continually exhaust the savings account. Anybody knows better than that: we’ve got to live on our energy income. At any rate, once man got rural electrification and began burning up the fossil fuels, the farmers wanted to give up their windmills. Windmills, of course, did not produce very much power. So what can we do about it?
“Of course, wind power is Sun power; it’s the effect of the Sun on the atmosphere of the Earth. And of all the energies that are available anywhere in large magnitudes, there is nothing to compare with wind power. But the only thing is, it is intermittent. So we’re developing a beautiful new windmill using all the knowledge of arodynamics. Aeronautics started just after the windmill had been given up, so the interim knowledge which has been acquired is phenomenal.”
