Windmills built bring in profit to a landowner. ... Windmills are not silent. ... I live in an area where windmills are being built and I am always surprised when I hear people complain that they are an eyesore. Sometimes there is an impact on adjacent and nearby land when you are talking about windmills built on a large scale (not personal windmills). ... Great care must be taken that the windmills are not built in a path of migration for the bats or birds. ...

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The first windmills were used around 700 A.D. in what is now the country of Iran. ... In Europe, windmills became popular around the 1100's because they could be built anywhere, had many uses and could be used year-round. In the 1800's, thousands of people across North America built windmills on their land, utilizing it's benefits to run their homes and farms. Over a hundred years ago, people began connecting windmills to generators to power newly invented light bulbs and batteries. The world's first utility scale turbine was built on a mountaintop in Vermont, producing 1....

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Wind energy is an alternate source of generating electricity, usually obtained from moving air, which depends on the motion of wind resulting from the temperature of the earth (heating and cooling). The power is consumed through the turbines and generated by its magnetic fields. Wind Energy is alway...

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