Windmill Whirl-Off 🌍

Once you install digital monitoring technology into traditional windmills, there are all sorts of things you can do with that data. The two main organizations pursuing digital monotoring of this sort are

• Smartmolen
• Spinning Mills

They have got together to share their data, and the Windmill Whirl-Off is the result, a fun league table of how many sail revolutions each mill they monitor has had this year, which they describe thus:

A fun and friendly international celebration of windmill sail rotation ... because keeping windmills turning is keeping heritage alive.

Not surprisingly, the table is topped by Dutch mills, which operate commercially. The top UK mill is Wicken, which runs quite regularly producing flour effectively on a hobby basis. Second of the UK mills is Upminster.