 Because the Danes already had a strong DIY-culture for small wind turbines generating electricity on farms, they started building windmills to heat their houses. Some chose the indirect path, converting wind generated electricity into heat using electric heating appliances. Others, however, developed mechanical windmills that produced heat directly. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/02/heat-your-house-with-a-mechanical-windmill/ 4 comments
 @neauoire just going to put this here.. a refrigerator with no moving parts, uses no electricity, and requires only a heat source to operate.. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/sep/21/scienceofclimatechange.climatechange  @neauoire Danish leftism is hugely underrated. From Norreboro to Nord Vest in KPH, nearly everyone lives in an anarchist or communist co-op. The only other neighborhood in Europe that compares is Exarchia in Greece, in my experience at least. |
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@neauoire In Kim Stanley Robinson's sci-fi novel, Red Mars, they use heat from windmills as the first means of terraforming Mars, I did not know people actually do it here on Earth!