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Oldest known windmills are developed by Persians (a region now occupied by Iran). These early windmills consist of a simple tower supporting paddles made from bundled reeds and spin the paddles around a vertical axis to grind grain.
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The Dutch introduced a 'tower' mill. It was a mult-story tower with floors for grainding grain, removing chaff, storage and living quarters for the windsmith and his family.
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the first windmill for electricy proudction was created by James Blyth.
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La Cour was the first to discover that fast rotating wind turbines with fewer rotor blades were most efficient in generating electricity production.
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The first vertical axis wind turbine, the Darrieus turbine, is invented by Frenchman George Darrieus who in 1931 has it patented in the US
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Producing wind turbine generators ,The generators are used on farms to charge batteries and power lighting.
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In 1981 the 7.5mW Mod-2 is build by Nasa, followed in 1987 by the 3.2mW, two-blade wind turbine Mod-5B. Both turbines break records for diameter and energy output
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The UK government plans to have thousands of windmills by 2020
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The Eu sets the UK government a target to increase the contribution of renewables to UK electricty to 20% by 2020
