Photos tagged as windmill

Windmill, Spain

Date: 21 August 2009
Photographer: StephenJen: gallery
Location: Spain: gallery
Tags: windmill
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Spanish windmill1

Date: 21 August 2009
Photographer: StephenJen: gallery
Location: Spain: gallery
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This is the site of 19 historic windmills. We had really good weather and got to go inside one of the mills and see it running. Some other tourists asked the ticket-man where the wind-mill's diesel engine was located, and commented that they must have been pretty useless before electricity was invented. lol

Date: 1 May 2009
Photographer: RachMulder: gallery
Location: Kinderdijk, Netherlands: gallery
Tags: people windmill
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close-up windows windmill

Date: 2 April 2009
Photographer: nursewendy: gallery
Location: kinderdijk, Netherlands: gallery
Tags: windmill holland kinderdijk
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windmill

Date: 2 April 2009
Photographer: nursewendy: gallery
Location: kinderdijk, Netherlands: gallery
Tags: windmill holland kinderdijk
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typical dutch

riding a bike

Date: 2 April 2009
Photographer: nursewendy: gallery
Location: kinderdijk, Netherlands: gallery
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Windmills

The controversial windmills in Wellington. Are they worth the ugliness on the landscape.

Date: 2 March 2009
Photographer: Dodger: gallery
Location: Wellington, New Zealand: gallery
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windmill 2

These windmill have just gone online in the national grid. they currently produce enough power for 17,000 homes, when the field is fully operational they say they will produce enough power for 70,000 homes. Some people are complaining about the spoiling affects on the countryside and question the power figures.

Date: 2 March 2009
Photographer: Dodger: gallery
Location: Wellington, New Zealand: gallery
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Australia

Date: 23 December 2008
Photographer: dyakhnov: gallery
Location: Sandy Point, Australia: gallery
Tags: landscape windmill farm
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IMG_0875

Date: 16 November 2008
Photographer: shanmoore: gallery
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark: gallery
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CNE Windmill and Sun

Date: 11 October 2008
Photographer: GregW: gallery
Location: Toronto, Canada: gallery
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Oia Windmill

This is one of the windmills at Oia, a village at the top of Santorini island

Date: 4 September 2008
Photographer: RBruceW: gallery
Location: Greece: gallery
Tags: architecture traditional white island windmill santorini greek mediterranean oia agean cyclades cubist
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How a windmill works: 101

This diagram (in Dutch) gives a rough explanation of how most Netherlands windmills work - they use a type of screw to pull or push water along a canal, and help to keep the sea water at a certain level (to avoid flooding farmlands). Very clever!