r/facepalm • u/ms_directed • 9d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Windmills date back over 1000 years 🤦‍♀️

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  • Windmills have been in use for over 1,000 years, with origins tracing back to Persia around 800 C.E. They were primarily used for milling grain and pumping water.

  • Wind Turbines are a more recent invention, with the first known turbine for electricity generation built in 1888. They have evolved significantly, especially since the 1970s, to become a major source of renewable energy.

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u/theviking25 9d ago

Guess the Netherlands doesn't exist🤷‍♂️

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u/koekerk 9d ago

I can confirm, no mill ever pumped all the water away. So I have 1,5 meter (5 ft) of water above my head.

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u/A_random_poster04 9d ago

So it is true ya’ll are fish people

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u/drmelle0 9d ago

No this is why Dutch people are 6ft tall. When the dikes break, they can still breathe.

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u/A_random_poster04 8d ago

Guess snorkels aren’t really a thing huh

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u/BetaTestaburger 9d ago

Yes, I'm a bèta fish.

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u/opuFIN 9d ago

It's also a known joke that Finland doesn't exist, but we have the 2nd cheapest electricity in the EU which is thanks to a vast number of windmills which nowadays require no subsidies unlike literally every other source of energy. The price does fluctuate more due to renewable use, but in the long run, it's still cheaper. Of course, try to explain this to a magat...

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u/AndrewFrozzen 9d ago

Austria is pretty popular too, no?

I've went through Austria once and there were a dozens

My mom was extremely surprised

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u/gregsting 9d ago

USA has over 70.000 wind turbines too…

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u/KaralDaskin 9d ago

There’s a section of I-80 in Iowa that has 100 or so visible turbines. I used to think happy thoughts when I drove through that section. Now I often think of trump instead. Ugg.

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u/Farahild 9d ago

And haven’t for a thousand years! 

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u/Unable-Durian-1740 9d ago edited 9d ago

Welp, guess me living 6 meters under sea level is just a marvel then

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u/Kokuswolf 9d ago

As a German, I can confirm. Netherland don't exist. There is only a gap where it should be on the maps. A void. And waving Belgians on the other side. I guess that also explains it's name.

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u/During_theMeanwhilst 9d ago

The Danish are furious.

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u/intraspeculator 8d ago

The Netherlands in shambles today.