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A modern windmill — or wind turbine, to be exact — is not so much a construction that invites affection or radiates pastoral comfort. Rather, it is something built out of an urgent necessity — a need for a better means of generating electricity, an invention made to wean society away from polluting ourselves into oblivion.

It is a device that triggers in the public mind a certain degree of apprehension, being a stern reminder of how we had all better shape up, or else. If Cervantes was right and 17th century Spaniards did think of such mills as icons of menace, then some of us feel similarly today, except that the stakes — our very existence — are considerably higher.

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