The migration from water wheels to modern turbines took about one hundred years.

Originally commissioned in 1926, it was recently overhauled and now contains modern turbines and plant, though the original buildings are still in use.

Wind power is quiet and poses no significant falling-ice hazard, and many independent studies show that modern turbines do not harm bird populations.

Efficiency is often higher (that is, closer to 1) with larger and more modern turbines.

Consequently the yawing of the large modern turbines is relatively slow with a 360 turn lasting several minutes.

Many different designs have been used in the past, but almost all modern turbines being produced today use a three-bladed, upwind design.

Both old and modern turbines can be viewed in working state to this day.

However, the most common method in large modern turbines is to instead use a doubly fed induction generator directly connected to the electricity grid.

These modern, turbine powered cruisers are properly classified as light cruisers.

Like the old stone windmills that have dotted Spanish horizons for centuries, the modern turbines are all on land.