“I actually had a greenie say we should put windmills on cars to power them.”
Back in 1977 a nuclear engineering magazine ran a satire on its inside back page. It did this every month.
In one issue, it focused on the use of windmills on cars.
I remember because that was my senior year in college and I had gone to a meeting of one of the anti-nuclear alliances. In that meeting they were so excited when one of the members started reading from the article ... till I pointed out that it was satire.
There are some ships that use “windmills” so that they can move directly into the wind and not have to track in the wind. They are at a standstill with no wind just like sails.
I remember those cartoons on the last page of Nuclear Engineering magazines.
They were produced by Matt Groenig who went on to produce the Simpsons empire. It explains whay Bart was a nuke plant operator.