Wind turbines versus Windmills

Calahonda52

Was on an SEAI sponsored energy related training event earlier today and the presenter kept referring to windmills.


If I came telling you about windmills, what would occur:
some sleepy Dutch tourist spot over run with Chinese foto snapping tourists

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46194330

or

one of these in the middle to the pond in St Stephens Green
https://www.ge.com/renewableenergy/wind-energy/offshore-wind/haliade-x-offshore-turbine
or
more pleasant thoughts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSaugshzywA
...
Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel
As the images unwind, like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind!

Water John

It's in the word windMILLS, for grinding grain. Seen the tower of one in co. Cork that was used to pump water. I suppose they called it a windmill.
A turbine can be driven by water or wind to generate power. So wind turbine refines it, to exactly what it does.

They're interchangeable depending on native language.
I consider it a difference of speed versus torque. Subjective really.

A turbine is a transducer. A Mill is industrial plant.

maestroamado

Sir Liamalot wrote: »

They're interchangeable depending on native language.
I consider it a difference of speed versus torque. Subjective really.

A turbine is a transducer. A Mill is industrial plant.

your too effin smart to be on here....