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This is one of 75 windmills that are north of Muenster, TX. They are used to supply power to 250 homes. www.kxii.com/home/headlines/17403304.html
They can be seen for miles away and always look much closer than they actually are when your in town. Its amazing that something so large could be moving like a propeller so quickly. There isn't much noise emitted by them either.
It is difficult to convey the height of these without a good size reference, but the trees are a good indicator.
Until Sunday night and the winds took their toll this was a working windmill with a great bakery to the rear , I do hope it can be restored .It is know locally as Mount Pleasant windmill .It was built in 1875 for miller Eric Lansdall as a four-patent-sailed, slightly tapering four-storeyed tarred tower mill with onion-shaped cap and fantail on top of the remaining roundhouse of a previously erected post-mill.
A random windmill off the exit on I-84 into Baker City, Oregon. My son and I went in to check it out.
A Chinese cemetery memorial site is right across the road.
Part of the windmill farm on Route 40 between Peoria and Bradford. These two are right off of route 17. Standing here you can hear the "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh" sound as the blades turn.
The Bangui Windmills are located in Bangui, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. The windmills, officially referred to as the NorthWind Bangui Bay Project, were a project by the NorthWind Development Corporation as a practice renewable energy sources and to help reduce the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. The project is the first “Wind Farm” in the Philippines consisting of wind turbines on-shore facing the West Philippine Sea and considered to be the biggest in Southeast Asia. The project sells electricity to the Ilocos Norte Electric Cooperative (INEC) and provides 40% of the power requirements of Ilocos Norte via Transco Laoag.
Bidston Hill is 100 acres (0.40 km2) of heathland and woodland that contains historic buildings and ancient rock carvings. It is located on the Wirral Peninsula, near the Birkenhead suburb of Bidston, in Merseyside, England. With a peak of 231 feet (70 m), Bidston Hill is one of the highest points on the Wirral. The land was part of Lord Vyner's estate and purchased by Birkenhead Corporation in 1894 for use by the public.
Bidston Windmill replaced a wooden mill that was destroyed by fire in 1791,and was used to grind wheat until about 1875. However it is believed that there has been a windmill on this site since 1596. After falling into disuse it was bought and restored in the mid 1890s .
I am getting a real interest in our windmills through doing a search on google trying to find out just which ones are left standing and gaining information and whereabouts on all the mills that have been long gone with old photographs so with being a wet and miserable day I thought I would process this in black and white as there was little colour in it anyway but I will be back on a better day for a improved shot
Windmill "de Zandweg" in Rotterdam-Charlois is a flour mill built in 1723. In 1959 the municipality of Rotterdam bought this mill and restored it completely. In 1962 the restoration was completed. The mill is in operation regularly and is open to visitors.
made with Fuji X10
My first pic of a windmill... not bad, I don't think.
Obviously, I used a sky from a different pic. The sky turned out flat white in the pic. Yuck.
Blennerville, Kerry, Ireland
My contacts will recognise this shot, I took a few shots of this windmill a few months back (see below). It became my most popular shot on Flickr. One of the comments made on the shot was that a wider lens would have worked better. The original (below) was taken with a 17-85mm, and this shot was taken with a 10mm lens. I used the same processing to try and recreate the shot. I cant decide which I prefer, I think the shy and shadows of the sails work best in the original but the wider angle is perhaps more striking.. Ill let you decide ;)
Some Info on the Mill:
Sir Rowland Blennerhassett (a well known Tralee character) built the Blennerville Windmill in 1800, by 1846 the windmill had fallen in ruins. In 1981 the Tralee Urban Council purchased the windmill and has developed it as a tourist attraction.
Blennerville Windmill is a living reminder of Ireland’s rich industrial heritage. Featured in the Guinness Book of Records as the “ largest working windmill” in Great Britain and Irelan, visitors are guided by the miller through each element of the four making process.
There's a windmill and tulip farm near the western edge of Golden Gate Park. The tulips weren't blooming, but the windmill was impressive.
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