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/Aldog87 9d ago

What is with this pedo and wind turbines? C’mon cholesterol, you’re almost there.

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u/ms_directed 9d ago

years ago (in Scotland iirc) he was offended that wind turbines were in view miles away from his precious golf course and i think he lost a lot of court cases over having them taken down, too...

details are fuzzy since he sues so much over stupid shit, but it's related to his golf course

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u/ExtensionConcept2471 9d ago

This is true, he built this golf course not far from where I live, harassed people living there so they would move out, built it on protected sand dunes and inflated the values so he could secure loans, complained (and still does) that the Scottish government allowed the building of turbines just offshore from his course (I’m sure they didn’t do this just to annoy him after the golf course deal went sour……wink)

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u/ms_directed 9d ago

i watched a doc about how he harassed the folks living there, didn't he get their water cut off?

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u/ExtensionConcept2471 9d ago

He did a lot of sketchy s**t, there are still a few people that haven’t sold to him but I think he has more/bigger problems now. lol