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Wind Energy
First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe…. Here is an
almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how triing the use we make of it! It
only serves to turn a few mills, blow a few vessels across the ocean, and a few trivial
ends besides. What a poor compliment do we pay to our indefatigable and energetic
servant!
Henry Thoreau, “Paradise, Paradise (To Be) Regained” (1843)
… As yet, the wind is an untamed, and unharnessed force; and quite possibly one of
the greatest discoveries hereafter to be made, will be the taming, and harnessing of
the wind.
Abraham Lincoln ...