Those...are the windmills of the Barbarois.

He fights windmills.

Blue suns, green whirlwinds,

No, your father's rolling mills...

It's not because we're going to build a bajillion windmills.

More windmills or more coal fired power plants.

You're looking at a world where cars are matched with windmills.

In Denmark, we will drive all the cars in Denmark from windmills, not from oil.

I consider myself among the majority who look at windmills and feel they're a beautiful addition to the landscape.

Bats are also threatened in the U.S. by their attraction to wind farms.

BRUSSELS When the winds of change blow, says an old Chinese proverb, some build walls, and others build wind mills.

However, asking us to join the NPT is like tilting at windmills.

Al Gore I consider myself among the majority who look at windmills and feel they're a beautiful addition to the landscape.

BRUSSELS When the winds of change blow, says an old Chinese proverb, some build walls, and others build wind mills.

By the 13th century windmills had come into use to pump water out of areas below sea level.

Nonetheless, Europe has continued to pursue its quixotic course, even without a global treaty on reducing carbon emissions.

Europe now gets 1 of its energy from wind less than before industrialization, when cozy windmills contributed about 2 (and ships sails provided another 1 ).

The fact that he has picked the moderate Francois Fillon as prime minister indicates that he is interested in obtaining real results, and that he thus plans to take the evolutionary route rather than tilting at the windmills of revolutionary change.

History Early production processes were constrained by the availability of a source of energy, with wind mills and water mills providing power for the crude heavy processes and manpower being used for activities requiring more precision.

Too much focus on broad issues, such as rule of law and accountability, runs the risk that policymakers will end up tilting at windmills while overlooking the particular governance challenges most closely linked to economic growth.

Food Security This program involves capacity building for ethno development agents and implementation of actions directed to the development of productive infrastructure (flour mills, agricultural tools, fishing materials, artisan work, irrigation or technical assistance for agriculture).

That sounds good until you realize that it means that 210 times as many people in poorer countries might die needlessly as a result because the resources that could have saved them were spent on windmills, solar panels, biofuels, and other rich world fixations.