The residents herded goats, farmed wheat, barley, olives and grapes and built more than 75 windmills.
This road leads to Woudsend, a medieval burg laid out between two windmills and a harbor.
Instead of tilting at windmills we need to slay the dragons we know exist.
"You have to feel a little bit like Don Quixote fighting the windmills, " he says.
Immelt agrees GE must figure out how to make windmills stand on their own.
So far, no windmills: but look at what the Crown Estate owns: the seabed off Britain.
The windmills generate electricity and pump water in his hometown, north of the capital, Lilongwe.
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Dr Mackie said 10, 000 three Mega Watt Windmills could deliver all Scotland's electricity.
Your electric grid has only so many windmills attached, and its marginal producer is a coal-fired plant.
In this year of the storm, the winners will build windmills and the losers will raise shelters.
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Were it not for our investment in clean energy, they wouldn't be building those 100 new windmills.
Ministers have instead placed their faith in offshore wind farms, but waterproofing windmills makes them more expensive.
If all such asteroids turn out to be harmless windmills, it will have been a wasted effort.
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General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people )'s most popular windmills generate 3 megawatts.
The subsidy provides an income tax credit of two cents per kilowatt hour for electricity produced by windmills.
Green may be in vogue, but that doesn't mean utilities want the government forcing them to build windmills.
Because the wind blows inconsistently, power companies would have to turn fossil-fuel plants on when windmills fall still.
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And where are we going to be putting the next generation of windmills?
You know, the usual calls by the hippies that the oil companies should invest in windmills and the like.
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And it shows with the company's Ecomagination line of green and energy-efficient products, which include windmills and fuel-efficient turbine engines.
With technology similar to on-shore windmills, developers say the turbines should create enough electricity to power 10, 000 homes on Anglesey.
Environmentalists also see potential for wind power generation along the coast, where windmills on islands could supply some big cities.
For instance, to its supporters, a proposal to build 130 giant windmills off Cape Cod will help battle global warming.
Second, it already operates globally, in 26 countries, including an upcoming factory in Xiangtan, China supplying parts for windmills, for instance.
Owners of windmills that kill thousands of birds a year, including bald eagles, are not prosecuted under the migratory bird act.
Windmills, for instance, are unpredictable and must be paired with gas turbines that can be throttled up when gusts die down.
Would we prefer to use the labour of 5, 000 people to do this with shale gas or 500, 000 people with windmills?
If SUVs are bad and wind power is good, then we must levy a tax on gas-guzzlers and hand out tax credits for windmills.
And as you stand with the windmills spinning behind you and the Aegean stretched out before you, you will know you are somewhere special.
In practice, the way people feel about windmills may have as much to do with financial effects as with physical ones.
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