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- speaker-1: I think one of the biggest problems I run into too is that people will always want me to add a windmill as well as solar to their stuff. And I try to explain like listen, like like you don't want to do people are like, well there's wind. So obviously windmill speaker-0: wait wait you're gonna like this you want a little history lesson on windmills which country had the windmills Holland Holland right Holland but now remember their country was a third under water I know it's for vaccine my family's Dutch this is long before electricity what were the windmills for speaker-1: Pumping water. speaker-0: pumping water fine you don't need to have them work all the time just need to make sure water gets to a certain level Turn the thing on. It was not meant to go all the time. So wherever they got the crazy idea that let's just have these things spinning to produce electricity, history does not support that at all. speaker-1: Exactly. Yeah.