2007-04-06 04:44:21 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
Yeah, I know it's a dumb question, but I just had to make sure that it was wind!
2007-04-06 04:55:09 · update #1
Peanut Butter...of course
2007-04-06 04:47:25 · answer #1 · answered by pancakes & hyrup 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
In a really bad sandstorm, a windmill with metal blades, the old farm type of windmill, lights up with static electricity. So in this unusual case some of the wind energy goes to make electrons excited. Light is given off when they relax to the ground state.
2007-04-06 12:18:20 · answer #2 · answered by Robert J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does the word wind say something to you? Windmills can via the wind create different forms of energy
2007-04-06 12:04:27 · answer #3 · answered by hoot_dude 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As many people have said - it is the wind.
The sails are slightly angled so that when the wind blows on them it makes them turn, in the old type windmills this would be used to turn grinding wheels to crsh grain into flour. In the modern 'windmills' it's a turbine that's turned to produce electricity.
2007-04-06 12:01:46 · answer #4 · answered by Trevor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The kinetic energy of the wind is the immediate source, but the energy behind the wind is the sun.
2007-04-06 11:47:49 · answer #5 · answered by ecolink 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The energy source would be the wind, but the energy is produced by a generator that sits atop the turbine, behind the blades.
2007-04-06 11:47:03 · answer #6 · answered by ♫ Sweet Honesty ♫ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the wind of course
in Holland where there is a lot of wind we have had windmills for many centuries ,to grind wheat flower ,in Spain they also were around long ago .
today we use wind power to pump water in isolated places(Africa,Australia,America )
in Holland the wind mills that have survived , have become tourist atractions
2007-04-06 11:52:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
People think the wind turns windmills but in fact the structure supporting the windmill is full of little hamster wheels and thousands of little animals that run 24X7 to provide power.
2007-04-06 11:48:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Lets see it is a WIND mill so the sorce of energy must be Water
2007-04-06 11:49:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ultimately its the sun, which causes the atmosphere to "boil" thereby creating weather, a small portion of which is called wind.
2007-04-06 12:05:07 · answer #10 · answered by The Father of All Neocons 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Holy hell!! You gotta be kiddin me. Did you skip elementary school? Wind, you dumbass, wind. Good Lord...I can't believe this question. You know what...forget my answer....here is the power source....hundreds of ducks stored inside farting.
2007-04-06 11:48:57 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋