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  2. Windmill ship - Wikipedia

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    A windmill ship, wind energy conversion system ship or wind energy harvester ship propels itself by use of a wind turbine to drive a propeller. They use wind power [1] through a mechanical or electrical transmission to the propeller. Where transmission is electric, storage batteries may also be used to allow power generated at one time to be ...

  3. International Wind- and Watermill Museum - Wikipedia

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    Exhibition hall with mill models. The heart of the museum site is the 800 m 2 exhibition hall housing objects from mills and the milling industry. In addition, there are 49 miniature model windmills and watermills - detailed and accurate scale models of the originals - from 20 countries on display.

  4. History of wind power - Wikipedia

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    Blyth's windmill at his cottage in Marykirk in 1891 Wind powered generators were used on ships by the end of the 19th century, as seen on the New Zealand sailing ship "Chance" (1902). The first wind turbine used for the production of electricity was built in Scotland in July 1887 by Prof James Blyth of Anderson's College , Glasgow (the ...

  5. List of sailing boat types - Wikipedia

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    A Windmill sailing dinghy The following is a partial list of sailboat types and sailing classes , including keelboats , dinghies , and multihull ( catamarans and trimarans ). Olympic classes

  6. Flettner rotor - Wikipedia

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    The Buckau, the first vehicle to be propelled by a Flettner rotor. A Flettner rotor is a smooth cylinder with disc end plates which is spun along its long axis and, as air passes at right angles across it, the Magnus effect causes an aerodynamic force to be generated in the direction perpendicular to both the long axis and the direction of airflow. [1]

  7. List of windmills - Wikipedia

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    Specifically, around 1675 a first wind-powered sawmill was built on the island of De Kuyper (now Pulu Burung) to support the Onrust Island dockyard that repaired Dutch East India Company ships. By 1685 there were two built in Onrust and around 1705 another was built on the island of Edam ( Pulu Damar .

  8. The Netherlands has a record crop of new millers to keep the ...

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    A wintry gust of wind raises hopes that the giant sails of a centuries-old windmill near Amsterdam will start turning. “If the wind doesn't blow, we're unemployed,” said Erik d'Ailly, a 69 ...

  9. List of most powerful wind turbines - Wikipedia

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    Model Power rating Deployment status Deployment date Wind farms Notes and references Mingyang Wind Power: MySE 22MW 22 Concept Rotor diameter of over 310 m and swept area of 75,438 m 2. [3] Mingyang Wind Power: MySE18.X-20MW 18.X to 20 MW Prototype Rotor diameter of 260-292 meters. [4] [5] [6] Dongfang Electric: DEW-18 MW-260 18 Prototype June 2024