Earth today is a world run by fuels and electricity. Every man, woman and child is directly affected by it, whether it is their consumption, uses or price. One of the newest sources of these fuels and electricity is not recent at all. Wind energy, or wind energy when converted into a useful form of energy, has actually been around for thousands of years. It was used to push ships, as natural ventilation and to pump sea water. {Insert thesis here} James Blyth was a Scottish scientist who created the first electricity-generating windmill, which powered his holiday home in Marykirk, Scotland. The United Kingdom soon declared its invention uneconomical, or a waste of time and resources, because it believed it was an unreliable source of electricity and best aimed at scattered populations. Some time later, Charles F. Brush, a brilliant inventor who authored dozens of other inventions, built a fully automated windmill designed specifically for electricity generation in the city of Cleveland, Ohio. It stood more than 60 feet tall, weighed more than 40 tons and was capable of powering a 12-kilowatt generator. Windmills during the 1900s really took off, in some countries the number of windmills reached over 2500. These windmills provided power for things like pumps, mills, and other heavy operations. Windmills have been around for centuries, as early as 200 BC in places like Persia and Iran. Hero of Alexandria was one of the first inventors to harness the power of the wind to power a machine, an organ, but this invention was not as practical as other windmills found in that period. In Iran's easternmost province, Panemone windmills were becoming more common. These were used to grind the mill......half the paper......and also to report the noise created by the turbines. These turbines also have a degrading nickname, killer blades. They earned this nickname from the birds they killed. On average, wind turbines have caused the deaths of 20,000 to 37,000 birds each year. But this amount is actually quite small. Over 90 million birds die each year from crashing into buildings, 130 million from collisions with telephone wires, and many more are killed by pesticides and pets. Works Cited Matthew, Sathyajith. Wind energy: fundamentals, resource analysis and economics. Berlin: Springer, 2006. Print.RenewableEnergyworld.com. "Wind energy". Wind energy. Np, nd Web. 02 Apr 2014."Wind and solar power now harvest enough energy to pay for generation and add storage space." Scientific American Global RSS. LLC. Www.eenews.net, and Web. 04 April. 2014.