30 DECEMBER 1922, Page 3

A scheme for harnessing the winds. and making them give

us cheap electrical current for all rural districts, it is stated, is being considered by the Ministry of Agriculture. The plan, we are told, requires low buildings, with great, wide wings projecting from each side, to be placed on the hill-tops. These wings, it seems, will not revolve like those of the ordinary windmill, but will go round and round, just above the ground, with a horizontal movement like that of a capstan. Whether the scheme is practicable we do not know, but it is quite certain that if we could break in ./Eolus to harness our windy island would greatly benefit.