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These were a far cry from the highly specialised wind turbines you see today. A windmill works through its blades and rotor shaft, so when the wind blows it pushes the blades to motion, causing them to spin.
At this early time, windmills were used primarily to pump water and to mill grain. Indeed, the techniques at the heart of solar power have been practised for generations; Mouchot was just the first to perfect it. You and your understudy have demonstrated to a board of fellow professors just how you can use selenium cells to harness rays from the sun and generate electricity.
Just a year later, in , Charles F. Brush invented the first windmill used to generate electricity on a farm in Cleveland, Ohio.
By , there were 72 wind turbines generating electricity in Denmark. And by the time the s rolled around, they were widespread across the US. The technology accelerated throughout the 20th century, alongside the increasing need to generate clean, renewable energy. In , it was found that there are approximately , wind turbines in operation around the world.
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