As a young married man, my grandfather traveled around West Texas building windmills for a living. |
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Another concern for us when building windmills in Fengxian is the local tourism industry. |
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Two reclaimed strip coal mines in Somerset County are now dotted with windmills that produce pollution-free power. |
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The new generation of windmills is going up on former rangeland, exhausted oil fields, reclaimed coal mines and old farms. |
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I know George would probably respond that we should reduce economic growth instead of building windmills, but there are two problems here. |
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It consists of 450 windmills with sufficient capacity to power 70,000 homes. |
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Hopefully, their officers will fall into line, tackle the real issues of the GAA and stop tilting at windmills. |
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Conditions were even unfavorable for the large-scale use of wind power, though some windmills were established. |
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Solar panels and windmills provide heat and light, while openings in the houses are rotated to preserve the grass from erosion. |
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Today the windmills are taller and sleeker and called wind turbines, and use the wind's energy to generate electricity. |
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Salt farms and gristmills dotted the coastline, their windmills tapping the sea breezes for energy. |
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There is a huge bridge stretching to Denmark, and giant windmills turning in the middle of the sea. |
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If one becomes reliant on windmills, as the Danish have found out, one then has to have backup thermal stations for when the wind is not blowing. |
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He was an outstanding engineer who advised on building windmills, locks and ports. |
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I am sure he would have dealt with the evils of nuclear power and the need to convert now to windmills. |
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On either side of her rose hills covered with vineyards and the gently rotating white sails of the windmills used for crushing grapes. |
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Lighthouses, for instance, have a certain romance about them, and Dutch windmills are considered highly picturesque. |
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Clocks told the time, windmills ground corn, cranes lifted things and so on. |
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Today's windmills are entirely computerized, with sensors that allow them to turn into the wind to harness energy as efficiently as possible. |
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From the seventh century on, peasants designed and built adobe horizontal-vaned windmills to harness the wind power and grind wheat into flour. |
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He would put a carbon tax on things like coal and fossil fuels so that his precious little windmills would then become more efficient. |
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A beautiful landscape shows several traditional thatched huts, but they all sport the sails seen on windmills across Holland. |
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I mean all your life you know some might say you've been tilting at windmills. |
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In order not to risk tilting at windmills, I am not getting my hopes up that my museum project will be realized. |
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If you diversify into activity where you have no competitive advantage you are just tilting at windmills. |
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They tilt at windmills and the hardships they endure are nothing more than the fruits of their own self-deceit. |
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A flock of birds surges impetuously from the thickets and takes flight towards the windmills that decorate the landscape. |
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But the six windmills for the chop were mostly on crofters' common grazing, which would have lost each 1000 a year rent. |
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Before Piet Mondrian became an originator of De Stijl, he painted windmills, cows, and meadows. |
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On hillocks trailing she-oaks, olives, myrtle and prickly pear, circular ruins rise up, like razed windmills. |
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A sympathetic judge lets her off with a fine and a reprimand and she goes driving off on a high ready to tilt at windmills once more. |
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It has also supplied parts for windmills, a post office in Iran and metal headstones for graves. |
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Of course the petition, the campaign and the whole story are all tilting at windmills. |
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Children's plastic windmills, stuck in the ground around the same area, are also said to do the trick. |
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Ms. Salomon, a spirited woman of 57, does not think she is some Don Quixote, foolhardily tilting at windmills ā real as they are, in her case. |
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Next, they quickly morph into strange dreamscapes featuring handmade windmills, water-spraying tilt-a-whirls, pink flamingos and yellow, bobbing dime-store ducks. |
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Most Scots, they say, are distrustful of the nuclear industry and would prefer to tackle climate change through windmills, tidal and solar power, and recycling. |
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We must not tilt at windmills, nor must we fight technology merely for the sake of it. |
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Number unobtainable Much ado about porting Grinched Truly revolutionary Tilting at windmills? |
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Description: The centre of the coin features an image of Don Quixote holding a lance, with windmills in the background. |
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In the future, we will have platforms out to sea, on which windmills would be installed. |
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To the far right are the windmills built on the edge of the Montreal Common. |
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The objective is to gain knowledge on practical aspects of the operation and maintenance of floating offshore windmills. |
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To this end, the energy used by the station is obtained from windmills and solar panels. |
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Instead, they use windmills and a pipeline system to provide clean water for their animals. |
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Most wind-generated electricity is created with wind turbines that are essentially giant windmills. |
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No, they won't be levitating off the ground, and no, they won't be frictionless, but they may be significantly more efficient than existing windmills. |
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The man took his force back to antiquity, to navigate and to move the windmills to grind grain, olives to squeeze or pump water. |
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Sustainable energy is often associated with small-scale solutions: a solar panel on every roof and a few windmills in every village. |
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With capacity of mere tens of kilowatts and a rotor diameter of 15 metres or so, these windmills are no giants, at least by today's standards. |
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By introducing windmills at sea, a new habitat, hard substratum, was created in a predominantly sandy environment. |
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Even a medium-sized twister produces as much energy as a small power plant or 100 windmills. |
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I even see in him the passion of Don Quixote who, in his case, fought windmills. |
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Renewable energy systems, including grid-connected windmills, decentralized wind-diesel systems and photovoltaic devices, will be installed. |
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The Costieres de Nimes' vatful Moulin d'Eole pays homage to the Beauvoisin windmills which fed the village with thin flour. |
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These windmills were used to operate the square-pallet chain pumps used in Chinese irrigation since the ancient Han dynasty. |
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Built in the 1970s, the Flowerdew Hundred post mill was modeled on windmills that existed centuries earlier. |
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It's also used for electrical components for schools, to demonstrate circuits with tiny solar panels and windmills as well as the traditional buzzers, lights and switches. |
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Leiden boasts over 2,700 monuments:from almshouses to windmills andchurches to city gates. |
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Southwest the Buttes aux Cailles lost its windmills but kept some old houses and steep winding streets. |
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The vast plains are dotted with the windmills at which Don Quixote once tilted. |
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Although the windmills only have been built recently, several significant insights were already obtained. |
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Return to the highway and continue on to Penong, where you can see windmills and surf the world-class breaks of Cactus Beach. |
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Today some 350 watermills and windmills take part in the open weekend. |
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I am now a well behaved individual, I have cut down on my quixotic outings, though the prospect of getting fatally maimed on one of those windmills is always enticing. |
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The set was dominated by a grid of windmills, each a metre across. |
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From the Middle Ages the tail vane of windmills, continuously steering the sails into the veering wind, are well-known early examples of guidance by feedback. |
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As we calculated when we were in Waitaki the other week, it would take something like 5,000 windmills to generate the power that Project Aqua will generate. |
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He tempted the children with goldfish, balloons, windmills, cheap toys and a few coppers to bring him rags, but some of the rags they brought him were still being used. |
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So no matter how much effort millionaires, lawyers and the military spend tilting at windmills, it seems, the future for wind power still looks good. |
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Trying to dictate specifics to the universal realms is, ultimately, tilting at windmills, since those energies work in ways few human beings have ever totally understood. |
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Starting out by tilting at windmills, the report ends up with proposals for reform that fail to deal with the real problems of the medical profession in the new millennium. |
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The welcoming committee is pure science fiction, a towering wind energy farm of sleek white windmills, five storeys high and filling the valley's entire widescreen width. |
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Renewable energy systems, such as windmills, biomass gasifiers, small hydropower stations and solar heaters, offer appropriate solutions for off-grid as well as for industrial applications. |
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For example, Chaussegros de LĆ©ry designed several churches, the episcopal palace and the facade of the Quebec cathedral, two naval shipyards in Quebec City, and even some windmills! |
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In other words, the fight for windmills is one where there are no losers. |
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Set amid the forbidding groves of bright cholla cactus and the enormous sculptural windmills that harvest the high desert air, Harrison's dream house, with its thick straw walls, will be impervious to unwanted noise. |
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While we don't think that building solar panels and windmills will provide that much labor, we could take a liberal attitude towards what's green. |
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Nowadays, it is possible to bypass wired networks and centralized power stations, to be replaced by Internet and decentralized unwired sources of energy such as windmills. |
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Homespun remedies include placing children's windmills along the mole runs or in the top of the mole heap. |
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Gay marriage has become a proxy for other undisciplined craziness running through their veins, from hunting to Europe, privatising the NHS to breaking up the BBC, loathing windmills, loving fracking. |
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In fact, we only spotted a couple of real windmills as we traversed the flat, ordered landscape of Lolland. |
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This clearly is a massive hike up the scale, but Prescott is not one to tilt at windmills and Celestial Path merits plenty of respect. |
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Route of the windmills and swampsĀ : 3h15 walking, 1h45 cycling from the village of Gandelu through a undulated and diversified countryside. Follow the yellow and pink signs. |
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Richard Leese, leader of Manchester council, says that some people will detest the curved ramps on the new square, its steel windmills and the modernistic footbridge, across the street from where the bomb went off. |
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All this has nothing anecdotal about it, but is merely the expression of the mood of the landscape, which is accentuated on the far horizon in the shape of windmills, the small church and rooftops of the village. |
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The activities here are to illustrate one segment of the energy pathway, that is the conversion of kinetic energy to mechanical energy using windmills and waterwheels. |
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Noise created by the windmills was also discussed. |
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Basic engineering skill pertaining to the servicing of solar panels and small windmills can be taught to local students through workshops and training. |
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By the 13th century windmills had come into use to pump water out of areas below sea level. |
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By the 14th century, Dutch windmills were in use to drain areas of the Rhine delta. |
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A necessary condition was a supply of cheap energy from windmills and from peat, easily transported by canal to the cities. |
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The earliest known references to wind-driven grain mills, found in Arabic writings of the 9th century, refer to a Persian millwright of 644 ce, although windmills may actually have been used earlier. |
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This familiar dichotomy-a nation alternately tilting at windmills or cynically interring its collective heads in the sand while tidy, ultimately obscures the currents that have long guided U. S. foreign policy. |
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With traded certificates, the power generated by Transylvanian windmills would be credited to Britain's renewables account, while Romania would get cash and clean electricity. |
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Perhaps most spectacular is the southern cape, named Sudret, with its rocky coasts and barren, highly scenic landscape crisscrossed by ancient stone fences and dotted with windmills. |
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Most of the 1kw windmills turbines out there are small light-weight models weighing in at less thanĀ 50 pounds, whereas the Mongi-Mills are built like a tank! |
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In between lies a desert landscape with a charming lighthouse, windmills, towering cacti and twisted divi-divi trees. |
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Further power could be generated by offshore windmills. |
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Even Don Quixote tilting ridiculously at the windmills is an expression of the latent nobility of man coming out to confront the dark forces that trouble the soul. |
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But Don Quixote attacked windmills, not evil giants. |
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Maybe when all this activity has ended and the station is sitting up on the ridge like a gigantic spaceship, we will once again have silence, save for the hum of the windmills. |
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The way I see it, Camelot's connections are too levelheaded to tilt at windmills, even if the prize is a Triple Crown. |
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The study will determine whether there is enough wind on the property, the potential energy yield and the appropriate size for one or more windmills. |
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It means that a player will have many hours of building windmills, caserns, foundries and other facilities, serving to warriors, all sorts of craftsmen, and even Gods. |
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After a spirited routine of windmills, headspins, and handstands that would put most adults to shame, she lost to fellow break dancing tyke JStyles. |
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Their use expanded through the Dark Ages with the addition of windmills. |
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There he became acquainted with the civil engineer John Smeaton, who during the course of his studies on windmills had devised a descriptive scale for grading wind speed. |
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We think windmills, tide mills, solar arrays and geothermal pumps are generally a good idea, but we won't invest heavily in any of them because they're a bit girly. |
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Pictorial plates were made in abundance, illustrated with religious motifs, native Dutch scenes with windmills and fishing boats, hunting scenes, landscapes and seascapes. |
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Vandeweghe is 6-1 to upset third seed Zvonareva, but rather than tilt at windmills it may pay instead to back the outsider at 11-4 with Hills to win a set. |
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The windmills were later used to drain lakes, creating the famous polders. |
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Was it Albert Tenhoven, a militant environmentalist who considered windmills destructive to his beloved Eifel landscape and who had earlier vandalized a windmill? |
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In contrast, the heavy agricultural windmills produced by the Danes just kept turning, and by 2000 the top three windmill manufacturers in the world were Danish. |
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He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753, and in 1759 won the Copley Medal for his research into the mechanics of waterwheels and windmills. |
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Leeghwater added a considerable amount of land to the republic by converting several large lakes into polders, pumping the water out with windmills. |
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