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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens cover image

Kris De Decker: "Looking Back Towards a Human Powered Future"

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

CHAPTER

The History of Windmills in the Netherlands

In the Netherlands, windmills were only working when the wind blew and that fact was just accepted. They had huge industrial areas with thousands of windmills together. The economy was the economy centered around that intermittent power source. Animals were much more expensive to use than wind for crucial production processes like food production.

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