isolated from the mainland, an island is a manageable unit and
the inhabitants have to cooperate on elementary things.
For engineer Hans Jørgen Lundgaard Laursen, local blacksmith
Thomas Nørgaard and later researcher Frede Hvelplund, it was a
challenge to persuade the people of Tunø to support the idea. The
blacksmith
was aware of local scepticism, which he could easily
understand. It all must be handled in the right manner. “How comes
that they try to make people believe that if we are going to have
windmills, they are to be placed in a long row all the way down the
Western coast ...