wind

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      700+ words ...wind 1 / wind / • n. 1. the perceptible natural movement of the air, esp. in the form of a current of air blowing from a particular direction: the wind howled about the building an easterly wind | gusts of wind. ∎ ...

Opener Becomes Bust in the Wind

The Washington Post;  April 2, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Wind? It was too windy? Whoa! I'm feeling a hot flash of '60s...ridiculous. Actually, the snow wasn't the worst of it. The wind was. But I guess I don't have to tell you that. That was...m sorry, that's the Canadian Football League. It was the wind. You never know what could happen when you play baseball...

[ Wind always has vexed humankind. ]

The Sun, San Bernardino, Calif.;  October 4, 2005 ;     679 words ...Wind always has vexed humankind. Sometimes, I think we should get rid of it, once and for all. I am talking about wind, not humankind. I consider myself a modern-day Don Quixote...musical "Man of La Mancha." Nothing ticked off Don Quixote like wind did. The overzealous knight-errant would see windmills in...

Put the wind up slippery salmon.(Features)

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  August 28, 1998 ;     468 words ...Wind - and there's been a lot of it this year - can be either...a frustration. Spey casting is much more successful in a wind, but even then it can be tiresome. The trouble is most of us try to compensate for the wind by putting more beef into the cast. This can alter your rhythm...

Welcome to 'wild weather central' When the wind is blowing hard atop Mt....

The Christian Science Monitor;  May 30, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Wind rushes over the top of Mt. Washington the way water cascades down mountain rivers - nothing stands in its way. The wind batters the mountain, whisking loose objects off into steep...anchored with wire cables and thick chains. It's because of the wind. You can't see wind, but you can see what ...

A severe thunderstorm event Web page for research and training

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  November 1, 2002 ;     316 words ......resource will hopefully contain all significant severe thunderstorm event days from 2000 to the present. Although this Web page...GREGORY W. CARBIN, AND ANDREW JUST. "Creation of a Severe Thunderstorm Event Web Page for Research and Training Purposes at the National...

Wind may be energy solution

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  July 4, 2003 ;     592 words ...Wind is the world's fastest growing energy source. Wind farms in Texas and California demonstrate that wind power is a profitable, year-round harvest, generating "wind royalties" for landowners and creating...

Where there's a wind there's a way: David and Jan Blittersdorf of NRG...

Vermont Business Magazine;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Wind like oil, is free. It's the liar hardware that costs. As oil production costs rise and...point at which world-wide oil production is maxed out alternative energy industries like wind and solar can expect a boom. And NRG Systems, Vermont's home-grown wind company, is ready. NRG - get it? - in Hinesburg ...

Reaping wind: power source gains support

St. Joseph News-Press;  October 2, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Wind has the power to rip a house off its foundation or twist...is generated by moving a wire across a magnetic field, and wind farms allow blowing breezes, stirring the blades of turbines, to create that situation. Wind power is already being put to work on a significant scale...

Wind power's potential no longer seen as a lot of hot air

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  September 9, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Wind power's potential no longer seen as a lot of hot air Energy...covered hills and canyonland. The answer has come in the wind -- something "we have plenty of," she says. And something...nearby college, expect to be landlords to the world's largest wind farm. Power for 75,000 families Along southeastern ...

Farmers Harvest the Wind.(electricity in the air)(Brief Article)

The Futurist;  November 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Wind-generated electricity may save many family farms. Some farmers...have discovered that they own not only land but also the wind rights that go with that land. A farmer in Iowa who leases a quarter acre of cropland to the local utility as a site for a wind turbine can typically earn $2,000 a year in ...

IMPROVING WIND ENERGY FORECASTS

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  March 1, 2004 ;     537 words ...Wind energy is the fastest-growing energy source today. Globally, wind energy grew at an average annual rate of 31% over the past 5 years. As a result, the need for accurate wind energy forecasts is becoming paramount: for system reliability...

Debating the costs of 'free' energy source Powerful Winds; Wind power here...

The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  August 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Wind power is a reality today. Nearly 1,700 megawatts - enough...natural resource or emitting any pollution or greenhouse gases. Wind is the fastest-growing energy source worldwide on a percentage...average households). Globally, $6 billion was invested in wind last year - cumulative investment will top $25 ...

WIND POWER TO LIGHT UP N.J.

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  September 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ...WIND POWER TO LIGHT UP N.J. By SCOTT FALLON, STAFF WRITER Date...about to take a major step toward clean energy with offshore wind turbines that would generate enough electricity to power...say will boost the project. Plans range from 74 towering wind turbines a few miles off the coast of Atlantic City to ...

Report blows hole in wind power plan

The Sunday Telegraph London;  June 29, 2008 ;     564 words ...WIND POWER would be too unreliable to meet Britain's electricity needs, according to a new report. It says wind patterns around the country mean turbines will fail to produce...unveiled a pounds 100 million plan to build at least 4,000 wind turbines, with a further 3,000 offshore. The programme is...