Since the 12th Century, flour has been milled here in Skerries an area near the coast in Dublin. The fully restored mills shows visitors the workings of the water mill and bakery of the 1800s . This gives the visitor examples of how wind and water energies were harnessed by our ancestors
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Hi @Eire27 ,
Wow, this is really amazing. In Brazil the windmills are a bit different and they don’t have central body rotating to follow the direction of the wind, they use the river current instead. In general, they have the same mechanism and the same function. They just stopped to be used because of the industrialization and urbanization of the big cities but it’s not hard to find a few of them very operational in a few countryside cities.