HARNESSING THE WINDS.
A scheme for harnessing the winds and making them give cheap electrical current for ail rural districts, it is stated, is being considered by the British Ministry of Agriculture. The plan, it is said, requires low building-, with great, wide iving.% projecting from each, to be placed on the hill tops. These wings, it seems, will not revolve like ! those of The ordinary windmill, but will go rotinu anc round, just above the ground, with a horizontal movement 1 like that of a capstan. The Spectator, commenting on the scheme, says if the scheme is practicable there must be cheap electric storage to make it a success. One great advantage of wind power is; its universality and inexhaustibility. 2so doubt there are calms when the winds are ‘‘up-gathered like sweeping flowers;" but such perfect ami-cy-clones are not usually lasting. V>'e ail remember the old Scots laird who favoured planting trees because ‘‘they're growing while you are sleeping." Even mere pleasant would it *be to hear the winds moaning and roaring while one lay in bed warmed by the blankets and the thought—"they are making n» iight and heat and motor transport for to-mwerorr."
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Otaki Mail, 2 March 1923, Page 2
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