America’s First Offshore Wind Farm

Re:America’s First Offshore Wind Farm by tombert on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @10:32AM (#12344008)

I thought the consensus at this point was that "windmill" basically meant "wind turbine", at least colloquially, in the same way that a "battery" really should be called a "cell".

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Re:America’s First Offshore Wind Farm by pjc50 on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @11:01AM (#12344250)

I'd got the impression that "windmill" was the deliberately wrong use of terminology by people opposed to wind power to trivialise or ridicule it. But that may just be me reading the Telegraph.

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Re:America’s First Offshore Wind Farm by tombert on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @12:07PM (#12344818)

In my particular case, it wasn't meant to be offensive or dismissive at all; I think wind turbines are very cool.

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Re:America’s First Offshore Wind Farm by nutheracc on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @11:04AM (#12344283)

I'm not part of that consensus. A mill mills.

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