Why didn't africa have any of these?
>>18023919I am mostly talking about sub saharan africa here btw.I have never seen any egyptian ones but I'll just assume one of the biggest ancient civilizations came up with something like this.pic semi related (from iran though)
>>18023919Why would they have windmills? Bread wasn't a big enough part of their diet to warrant automated milling. You can make the same arguments about China, they did have windmills, but they weren't that common because the Chinese mostly ate rice and wouldn't have had a big need for milling grains
>>18023970You can do more with these than just milling grain though.
>>18023919There's no wind in Africa
>>18023987There's no wood, grain, or rivers either
>>18023919They're an eyesore and they kill all the birds
>>18024092fuck them birds>eyesoreuntruewindmills look cool
Here's one
>>18023919Why didn't Europe?
>>18024655>built by dutch people
They did?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Harnessed_the_Wind
>>18024741No, build by Afrikaners, who are African natives just as much as black people are
>>18023982you can eventually once the tech improves a lot, but milling grain drove the invention and the investment in early windmills
>>18023919No wind in Africa because of tse tse flies or algo.
>>18024648Old school ones are fine but modern electric generators sre hideous and ruin the countryside. People in favor of them are pure NIMBYs
>>18024984That's not entirely true. Many farmers have an, albeit fairly small, electric windmill on their land. But yeah, there are places where the environment looks like an agricultural cyberpunk movie, particularly when it rains and all of them light up simultaneously
>>18023970Wasn't North China wheat country?
>>18023970China had watermills.
>>18023919I mean did the population density require them to automate grains ?
>>18024829>who are African natives just as much as black people areOnly when it became okay "to be African" lol.
Windmill technology originated in Persia around the 9th century and spread west to Europe by the 12th century.
