Mills were powered mostly by wind or flowing water.
Wind energy is derived from wind mills. These wind mills are powered by the wind and capture it's energy when it blows.
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wind mills => wind power (eolian energy).
one example of wind energy are wind mills.
To create energy in a green renewable way.
19th century factories were often powered by mills that used the running water of a river. This is part of the reason many industrial towns were built on rivers. They were also powered by coal.
flowing water
Wind energy is derived from wind mills. These wind mills are powered by the wind and capture it's energy when it blows.
Water Energy: Water is an energy source that may be used to power mills. In fact, many mills were water-powered in history. Some, but not as many, mills are water powered today. Keeping the example of water-powered mills, the water mill would have to be in a river. If during a drought (per say) the water level of the river dried up or diminished, falling rain would renew it. Of course, water is recycled through the water cycle, so water never diminishes. The form in which the water is in just changes its state of matter.
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it was powered by coal
Wind energy is used to sail boats, and turn wind mills to make flour.
Mills were mainly located in the North due to the fact that the mills needed a flowing water source to be powered. There were many streams and rivers, which could power mills, in the North. Another reason why mills were mainly in the North was because the South was all about agriculture and didn't want to waste money on mills when they could buy slaves for labor in the fields.
The power to run early grain mills came from hydroelectric energy provided through water wheels.
Saw mills could be powered by water wheels, just as a grain mill was powered. Horses and oxen could also be used to create the power. The application of steam is what really made things work faster.
Francis Lowell
The earliest mills were powered with horses or mules in a rotary turnstyle, as seen in the Beverly Cotton Manufactory, however later mills used water power, since that was less interruptable and provided more power for the factories.