The windmills in my region tend to be of the tall, skinny supporting framework-tower variety: with old, rusty, creaky rotating (or not) metal blades on top.  The windmills usually don't work, and they probably haven't actually been used for any real purpose since 1935 -- so they're not worth the bother of tilting at.  Besides -- tilt at one, and it might fall over and kill a cow.  Or worse yet: land on top of the farmer's tractor.  He might get upset about that.

I've driven through the 'windmill forests' outside of LA.  Now that would be a challenge.........but it might be a worthwhile tilting match, though.  Knock some of those 'environmentally-friendly' windmills over, and you could possibly end up saving the lives of some of the endangered birds which the windmills kill on a regular basis -- while producing very little power in a costly, inefficient way: that'll never amount to anything other than PR -- or to serve propaganda purposes.

But that's a different sort of windmill.  OT to this OT thread.

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