#GritInYourTeeth - Windmills, Wind Towers, and The Perfect Storm

A recent post portrayed a windmill in the foreground and a wind turbine in the background with a lush green ground and crisp blue skies - cutline - "Old versus New."

It really isn't an old versus new subject at all. A windmill used the power of wind to pump water.  These machines are still used in the most remote areas of the United States because of two things: 1. It costs too much to run electricity to these water wells to install an electric pump. 2. It costs too much for the owner to install solar panels capturing the power of the sun. These machines are occasionally used to generate power.

The power of the wind runs the windmill rotor blades to pump water for livestock and in some case water into a storage tank the occupants of a remote ranch house. These remote areas have been living off the grid for years using early smaller wind towers and solar panes to power lights for the ranch house.

Larger wind turbines were designed to work with a single tower or multiple towers depending the desired amount created energy.  Wind farms create energy to be transmitted over transmission lines to be used instantaneously by consumers.  A design to store the energy created efficiently has not been invented.  

Wind power carries diseases and rips top soil from production land. The wind also has negative features such as natural disaster storms of hurricanes, tornadoes, and straight winds.  It is powerful enough to capsize ships of large sizes.

Wind power is not new. The world wouldn't have been discovered without wind to cross the seas in ships without sails.  Mankind has realized inventions should have perfected the use of natural powers.

Wind, the perfect storm.