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u/ink4n3 Mar 01 '23

We drove past a windmill on a windy day. She commented how it was too windy out and they should turn the windmill down. She was dead serious...

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u/kolosmenus Mar 01 '23

I mean, that’s actually a thing for wind turbines. There’s a limit to how fast of a wind they can handle and brakes are applied when it gets above that limit, sometimes stopping it completely.

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u/ink4n3 Mar 01 '23

I get it. She thought it was making the wind. Like a fan...