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Under this definition, windmills, water wheels, anemometers, and certain tree fruits and seeds are ' autorotating ' devices.
I have not yet seen an attractive nuclear power station or coal mine, never mind the issues about windmills and renewables.
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I am told that 1,500 windmills 100 ft.
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He only tilted at windmills, and he did it once.
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I have two issues in mind, the first of which is the siting of windmills.
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In addition, he proclaimed the huge splendour of the landscape of vast direct taxation cuts which would be opened up after disposal of the windmills.
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I am not attracted to the proposal that we should all have windmills in our back gardens.
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One cannot depend on windmills if the day is not windy.
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Every prominent area would have three or four windmills of 60 m diameter.
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Many environmentalists will say that windmills are a good form of energy because they do not disturb the landscape.
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There are things like lychgates, stocks and pounds, and there are windmills, tithe barns, market squares and so on.
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We cannot for much longer run society on windmills, and, therefore, oil prices may or may not fall.
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Of course, windmills must be sited with care and environmental matters must be taken into consideration.
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We have 14 very beautiful, very elegant windmills, and artists are now beginning to come to paint them because they are so attractive.
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I am sure that those picturesque windmills that he has on his land will have blown all the rats away.
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Individual windmills that are proposed for listing can be considered on a spot-listing basis.
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During the course of this debate it seems that we have been tilting at a number of imaginary windmills.
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There has been a certain amount of tilting at windmills in the debate.
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He found that he was fighting "not windmills, but paper mills," and we certainly do not want anything of that kind to happen here.
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I want to speak about participation in the decision-taking which precedes these projects, whether they be windmills, power stations, motorways, or whatever.
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The question about windmills is whether they are thermally efficient.
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I, too, have reservations about peppering our countryside with 75-ft high monster windmills.
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There is no point in doctors and others tilting at windmills as some of those who are threatening industrial action are doing.
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We have made grants towards the repair and maintenance of five other windmills.
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They urgently need the windmills, tractors, electric generators, cement, simple factory equipment, hydroelectric equipment, etc.
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Once the wind speed rises above 30 or 35 mph, the windmills must be stopped to prevent the vanes from blowing off.
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There has been a lot of charging at windmills; setting up targets which are purely imaginary.
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Twenty years ago, windmills were being swept away with little concern.
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The problem cannot be solved by putting a few windmills here, there and everywhere.
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The experience on some of the projects mentioned, such as windmills, and others shows that that tends not to work.
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Windmills are popular at present and, yes, we must develop renewable sources of energy.
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Of course, windmills will be developed; these are primitive machines.
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The impact of those windmills upon the visual amenities has only to be thought of to be imagined.
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There are other points to consider about windmills in the environment.
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There is no point in tilting at windmills if one has no hope of succeeding.
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Windmills and films are practically never exported from this country, nor is air conditioning plant.
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In some cases, there is a great deal of bird mortality as a result of the operation of windmills.
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I do not suggest that we should have no windmills on-shore.
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However, there is a large export potential for solar heaters, for windmills, and for wind and wave energy in the developing world.
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Therefore, to supply the electricity needs of this country one would need 4,000 windmills.
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We must try to develop large and efficient windmills.
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In order to have the equivalent output of a modern nuclear power station, 1,000 megawatts, how many windmills does one need?
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The answer is that for aerodynamic reasons one has to have 30,000 windmills.
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He will also agree that windmills are not totally benign when it comes to noise.
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If they were in a block, it would be a block of windmills at least half a mile square.
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Three thousand of these windmills would be required, 500m apart.
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I also support financial measures to promote investments in total energy and windmills.
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The preservation of windmills must be tackled within the broader context of "industrial monuments" generally and not in isolation.
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You do not require heavy capital expenditure with windmills because there is always plenty of wind to keep the mills going.
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We ought to get back to coal, because we don't have enough windmills.
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Why did he give a fatuous answer about windmills, which he knows are entirely irrelevant?
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During our 20 years we have dealt with buildings of all sorts and kinds, from dovecotes and windmills to manor houses and palaces.
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Every proposal for windmills is opposed on planning grounds in those areas.
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He tended to focus on windmills, but he was speaking from experience.
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Are we to have wind farms or windmills all over the country?
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The environmental impact of the giant windmills, both on land and offshore, gives rise to no less controversy than do nuclear powers stations.
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What is new is the type of windmills, the number of them in any location, and their purpose.
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Where there have been no windmills to tilt at he has invented them and knocked them down with synthetic vigour.
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Up to now, the argument in favour of windmills has been dominant.
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One would have to have extremely impaired vision not to be able to see the windmills in his constituency.
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All the sources which seem so nice, including windmills, have certain unattractive environmental qualities.
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He should not erect windmills which he wishes to demolish, because that shows the weakness of his argument.
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I do not want to tilt at windmills any longer.
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There are other issues involved, including the benign sources of energy, such as windmills.
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We do not want the whole country covered with windmills.
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We then go for windmills, people say that they are ugly and that permission will not be given for them to be installed.
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If we had 10,000 windmills, one on the top of every beauty spot on these islands, we might be able to generate half our electricity.
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I do not propose today to tilt at all those windmills at once.
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She is absolutely right because the cost of photovoltaic cells and windmills would be prohibitive, particularly in the developing world.
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However, we may perhaps be tilting at windmills in this case because the majority of people welcome these proposals.
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Demonstration site technology includes gasifiers for wood and crop residues, solar ponds, heat pumps, aerogenerators and windmills, biogas digesters and solar collectors for crop drying.
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I cannot always follow him in his battles—sometimes they seem to be battles against windmills.
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I hesitate to think of what windmills on all of the high spots of the country would look like.
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Many of those windmills remained well into the 19th century, although their duties were replaced by the steam engine during the industrial revolution.
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If we do not have windmills, it is said that vie can use the waves.
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The problem with windmills is that people who are enthusiastic about the prospects of producing electricity from them hate having them anywhere near their homes.
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Our priority at this time must be to make the existing institutions work, not to spend time and energy tilting at windmills.
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Let us suppose, however, that there was an equal body of support for nuclear energy, oil-fired power stations, windmills or solar power.
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To use wind power, for example, would require us to build 40 windmills every month between now and 2020.
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I refer to the windmills over the countryside.
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I am somewhat disappointed by that answer, especially as the number of windmills in this country may have decreased in the past four days.
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I was in danger of my prepared remarks being taken as "fighting windmills", meaning criticising views which nobody put forward.
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One would have a plantation of windmills at least five miles square.
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I am all in favour of cheap energy and of the research and development which is involved in windmills.
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We are asked to consider windmills as an alternative.
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Such ambitions are pure fantasy and mere tilting at windmills.
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There were mills dotted all over the landscape, windmills and water ones.
Furthermore, the simplicity of this model allows simple extensions to more complicated geometries like skewed marine propellers or windmills.
By the eighteenth century toy windmills, printing presses, farms, alphabet cards, and jigsaw puzzles were to be found in the nurseries of the better-off.
Houses will have solar panels on the roof and windmills in the back, with grey water systems feeding verdant gardens.
Putting up straw people and insinuating that these would correspond to real people's (here our) positions and then fighting with these selfcreated windmills is done several times in the article.
He leaves each still standing though a bit battered; and ends up nowhere in particular, just looking around, lost, for another windmill to charge.
If my presentation has a thesis, it's that you can't have one kind of windmill without the other.
There seems to have been a windmill for practically every village and sometimes two or more in the market towns.
There was a windmill at the beginning of the path and a house at the end, with trees, clouds, and a sun along the way.
Why are we neglecting 'big' renewables in favour of covering our hillsides with windmills and our roofs with solar panels?
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When the wind blows harder, some people put up walls and others build windmills.
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Sustainable energy is often associated with small-scale solutions: a solar panel on every roof and a few windmills in every village.
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In other words, the fight for windmills is one where there are no losers.
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We must not tilt at windmills, nor must we fight technology merely for the sake of it.
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