He would like to bring back streams to the city and build windmills to provide power.
, said the writer Cynthia Ozick, "may have a quixotic, tilt-at-windmills quality, …The [law]-suit may be seen as tilting at windmills. I know he's neither reckless, nor does he tilt at windmills. He says what he sees. He wants to set the would right."
Spread across the vast plain are thousands of windmills, gently turning in a favourable wind; not too slow, not too fast and, above all, fairly consistent.
These policies include a cap-and-trade initiative known as the Emissions Trading Scheme, steep fuel taxes, and ambitious programmes to build windmills and other renewable energy projects.
The picture depicted a wave wind and the two windmills, the greater the wind the faster the windmill on the turn, and the smiling face of the wind turbine, but did not flinch.
The sugar plantations were adorned with windmills(Alec Waugh)
I would fly to Holland to see the windmills and the tulips.
For some reason he thinks everyone is out to get him, but he's really just tilting at windmills.
In practice, the way people feel about windmills may have as much to do with financial effects as with physical ones.
The government also approved the proposal of the Japanese artist Hiro Yamagata to mount a $64 million sound-and-laser show starting in 2009 that would project Buddha images at Bamiyan, powered by hundreds of windmills that would also supply electricity to surrounding residents.
The sleek turbines of the American windmills made economic and ecological sense.
Wind and rain are eroding the reefs, windmills are turning tender, and years are singing desperately to go ahead.
Germany and most southern European countries will exceed their targets if they keep building windmills at the current pace, so analysts at HSBC predict cuts in clean-energy subsidies.
Rural electrification following the Great Depression made farm windmills obsolete.
Seeing wooden ploughs, windmills, chips, harrows and other tools of production, reproduced the agricultural scene of the 1950s.
Environmental issues are referenced by many works, including the sublime “Knight of Infinite Resignation” (Diane Landry), an installation of 12 windmills and 237 empty water bottles filled with sand.
These devices act like underwater windmills, with blades that rotate as the tide flows through them.
Energy is not the limiting factor, he says, estimating that the energy output of 1000 windmills might be sufficient to add bubbles to an entire ocean.
These include renewable energy sources such as windmills and solar panels, as well as more efficient cars and power stations.
Some resembled windmills, animal cages or ship propellers.
But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills... and Holland has tulips.
La Mancha's windmills were famously captured in Miguel DE Cervantes's Don Quixote, when the bumbling knight of the title rushes the windmills, thinking they're giants.
The Perry Avenue Building features solar panels, rainwater-fed toilets and six rooftop windmills, which will produce 10% of its energy supply.
The sea of flowers is scattered with several European windmills and red brick castles, creating a fairy-tale world.
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