A photograph from the archives of National Geographic. Credit: Jules Gervais Courtellemont.
For more on the moulins of glaciers and why this building is red, see this 2009 post.
Reposted from 2013 to add this bit of advice from someone on a golf trip to Scotland:
“I say two things to Europe. Stop the windmills. You’re ruining your countries. I really mean it, it’s so sad. You fly over and you see these windmills all over the place, ruining your beautiful fields and valleys and killing your birds,” he said.
Recognize the movie?
As much as they won't admit it, they're doing this already.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/26/eu-rollback-on-environmental-policy-deregulation-european-green-deal
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-european-green-deal-has-failed/
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-the-european-parliament-elections-could-affect-eu-climate-policies/
Also, this is lunacy. The only way we can survive is by embracing a green future. It will cost investment, but it will be cheaper in the long run. The data is in on that.
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ReplyDeleteYes. Classic movie.
DeleteWasn’t this scene supposedly in the Netherlands? That is what I remember and also thinking WTF? b/c no windmills like these exist in my country. All of them have at most a brick base, more often wood, and a wooden upper structure. Made them able to turn with the wind.
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Delete> someone on a golf trip to Scotland:
ReplyDeleteDonnie Quixote?
He's certainly as delusional and picks equally absurd things to get into fights with. Fights he can't win, at that.
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