But is this actually a windmill? This is a turbine, a generator. A windmill does milling. It is connected to mechanical devices that do mechanical work such as milling flour, rather than a generator that creates electricity.
The inside of a working windmill are more complex and beautiful than any turbine.
So what does a textile mill do? Does it grind cloth into fine dust, or does it something else? Is the sawdust produced by a sawmill its primary output product?
The word mill is overloaded. In Dutch, these are two separate words: molen, a singular noun describing a machine using a rotational mechanism for powering some industrial process; and malen, a verb describing the milling of particles into flour. In this case, the article describes a mill of the first kind.
The inside of a working windmill are more complex and beautiful than any turbine.
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