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Can someone make a thumbnail for the image? It's too big for my PC...

Done.

The visible size of Image:Windpump8414.JPG is fine, but the size in kilobytes is excessive -- 173 KB for an illustration only is too much. --Joy [shallot] 18:05, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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First American style Farm Windpump in China, used to provide water for farming villages in the rugged mountains Henan province.

[edit] Why don't they still use them?

With all the pressure to be more eco-friendly, why are wind pumps not still used? Surely using a wind pump is a lot cheaper and easier than paying to use an electric pump. You would think with modern technology, that extremely efficient pumps might be developed, and then once they are in place, you wouldn't have to pay to use them, other than occasional maintainence.

In Australia they are still used where
  • It is a permenant need
  • being reliant on the wind, is not a problem
  • technical issues such as the amount of lift needed
Sorry to say but a lot of the time they need more than occasional mantainence. That's like saying a sailboat doesn't need as much maintainence as a motorboat - it's just different maintainence. And it's easier to get a small motor fixed (that you can unbolt and take into town) then it is to get a licenced rigger to go up a windmill tower and sort out your problem with a rather large fan. Garrie 23:49, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Windpumps in Cornwall

Where I live in Cornwall, England, there were and still are a number of American style windpumps. Cornwall was one of the last places to recieve a full water supply, and as a result many remote farmsteads had their own windpump, because using a well or hand pump did not provide water in the kind of quantities required for farming. I have a friend who used to live in a cottage that had a windpump "out back", which drew water from a well a short way underground. They installed it themselves, and the current owners of the house are still using it. The Pentewan Railway used a water pump at Pentewan, which was primarily used for lifting water from the reservoir and pumping it into the harbour to flush out the silt, but was also used to lift water up into the water tower for the steam engines to use. Providing small hamlets and villages with a fresh water supply was another use, until the water company came along and somehow convinced villagers to pay for their water rather than get it free. At any rate, this might be worth mentioning in the article - I'll come back to it one day and see what I can do. In the meantime, if anyone feels like adding any of this themselves, feel free. --▫Bad▫harlick♠ 00:43, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge to windmill

In my opinion the windpump is that similar to a windmill that it should be merged into that article, after all the pump is just a windmill with another tool attached. The windmill article also mentions its use as pump. Arnoutf 18:35, 8 January 2007 (UTC)