What's the difference between aerogenerator and windmill?

Aerogenerator


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Windmill


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  • (n.) A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft.

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  • (1) "It is rare to have such a prominent signature in a work of this date and it is one of only two of his series of paintings depicting windmills of Montmartre still in private hands."
  • (2) They not only started the season with journeyman windmill dunk specialist Gerald Green on their roster – he was one of Phoenix's starters.
  • (3) The Dutch are famous for their windmills, which have formed the basis for the design of the modern wind turbines that we see today.
  • (4) A few years later, Vince built a windmill out of scrap to power the old ambulance in which he still lived.
  • (5) Clegg said: "I think we have to deal with the emergency on our doorstep, rather than tilting at windmills."
  • (6) No wonder he was so keen on such dodgy projects as the euro, windmills and that AV referendum nonsense, they have been telling each other for ages.
  • (7) Wilhelmina were prominent for a time in Melbourne, Perth had (Morley) Windmills, and there was even the Hobart-based Hollandia.
  • (8) The hard graft for centre-left parties across Europe is to turn this around – not to be a 21st-century Don Quixote forever tilting at 19th- or 20th-century windmills.
  • (9) Vince’s first experiments in wind power began at Glastonbury festival where he fixed a windmill to a pylon and charged mobile phone batteries.
  • (10) This result is produced only when the risk per unit energy is considered, rather than the risk per solar panel or windmill.
  • (11) Why would you want to sail in a forest of windmills?"
  • (12) Turbines harness this energy by working like an old-fashioned windmill with rotor blades that face into the wind.
  • (13) However many bad calls he’s made, or windmills he’s tilted at , his office means that people tend to give weight to what he says.
  • (14) Hegarty also clashed with Morris, who spoke in favour of uranium and other resource mining, saying: “Not everyone wants a bloody big windmill in their backyard.
  • (15) Proud to be a "provincial" writer, in his novel Kept (2006) Taylor begins with a bravura passage describing his home county: "A land of winding backroads and creaking carts and windmills, a land of flood, and eels and elvers and all that comes from water, a land of silence and subterfuge, of things not said but only whispered, where much is kept secret which would be better laid open to scrutiny."
  • (16) Yet a vaguely green aura still hung around him to the end, with his fuzzy green oak tree logo and that windmill he tried to fix on his roof.
  • (17) Astypalea The Pylaia, Astypalea Where to stay Pylaia The charming village of Hora, with its whitewash buildings and windmills, is a slice of the nearby Cycladic islands.
  • (18) We shall see, with a windmill-hating environment secretary.
  • (19) Richard went for a windmill tableau and Nancy for a moulin rouge with sugar sails, while Luis created a village scene that included a biscuit mining-wheel with choux-pastry rope.
  • (20) The Windmill Restaurant at 46 High Street, Burgh-Le-Marsh (01754 810281, windmillrestaurant.co.uk ) has main courses from £10.

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