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Wind Power: by Rachelle Kreisman

Wind power harnesses the energy of the wind through machines known as windmills and modern wind turbines. Historically used for tasks like pumping water and grinding grain, today's wind turbines generate electricity by converting wind energy into power. Wind farms, which consist of multiple turbines, are capable of producing significant amounts of electricity for homes and businesses.

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Wind Power: by Rachelle Kreisman

Wind power harnesses the energy of the wind through machines known as windmills and modern wind turbines. Historically used for tasks like pumping water and grinding grain, today's wind turbines generate electricity by converting wind energy into power. Wind farms, which consist of multiple turbines, are capable of producing significant amounts of electricity for homes and businesses.

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Wind Power

Wind Power
by Rachelle Kreisman

A windmill is a machine that runs on the power of the wind. Long


ago, farmers used windmills to pump water and make flour. Each
windmill had blades at the top of a tower. When the wind blew, its
power made the blades spin. The spinning blades turned a pole
inside the tower. The pole then ran a water pump or moved a stone
that ground, or mashed, grain into little pieces.

Today, people have learned how to get much more power from the
wind. We have made a lot of progress! Now we have wind turbines.
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Wind Power

These turbines are modern windmills. Wind turbines have large


blades at the top of a high pole. The blades spin quickly when the
wind blows. When the blades spin, they power a generator. That is a
machine that makes electricity. Electricity brings light and power to
homes and businesses.

Wind turbines are often built in a group in many rows. That group is
called a wind farm. Wind farms produce a large amount of
electricity.

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