Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — Wind and Electric Power. [ARTICLE]

Wind and Electric Power.

There are thousands of windmills In the country, Idly turning most of the time and doing nothing. The discovery of electric power makes It possible for this useless energy to be economized. This is one of the means of scouring electricity that has been little thought of, and one destined to be of the greatest importance in the country, where the power of wind can be utilized to an almost unlimited degree. The work of churning, washing, running sewing machines, and even of ironing, may be done by eleotric power, while in the farmers' department working the grindstone, fanning mill, hay and feed cutter and a score of other labors may be performed by wind power, preserved, as any power can now be, in the form of electric i nergy. This will be possible when some efficient, practical and economical system of storage batteries is discovered.