Harnessing the Utility of the Wind ~ Making It Look Easy
People often call them windmills out of habit but wind turbines create electricity from wind power An Englishman has made things more complex by building both mdash a windmill based on a th-century model that also works as a wind turbine He thinks it can supply power to his entire house from his garden Gareth Ross Buddell built this structure in his home garden in Swindon He plans to test how well it works on a windy hillside next He says that in the past you could have seen more than of these structures across the UK Wind power comes from the wind People have used this energy source for ages and now it stands as the top renewable energy option in terms of setup and output Scholars call wind power quot eolic energy quot a name that traces back to Aeolus the wind keeper in Greek myths Source Google