Wind turbines English

Wind turbines are also called wind farms, which can be pretty confusing if the wind turbines are offshore wind turbines – how can a farm be in the sea? It is farming, but not as we know it, it’s farming the wind rather than the land. There’s another difference between the kind of farm that farms the land and a wind farm; farms that farm the land are operating all day, quite often for 7 days a week. The grass keeps growing and cows keep eating it for most of the day.
But wind turbines don’t keep operating all day. On some days the turbines don’t move at all. This is probably for economic reasons, they don’t have to keep operating all day. Even so, there’s a lingering suspicion that if they don’t keep operating all day they aren’t real farms,because real farms keep operating all day.
The problem is, we over-associate the word farm with normal farms – the kind of farm where the grass keeps growing and cows keep eating it for most of the day. The reason we do so is because the concept of normal farms has been ingrained into our consciousness for several thousand years. But the concept of wind farms has only recently been ingrained into our consciousness, in fact quite a few people have never even heard of them.
It’s quite possible that in another few thousand years normal farms won’t exist, it’s possible that synthetic foods will replace the food that is currently produced on farms.
It’s also possible that in a few thousand years wind farms will exist, although they will look and operate much differently to present-day wind farms. When and if this does occur, there will be no confusion about the word wind farm.