Of course at the same time there are a bunch of other utilities, like AEP, along with independent power producers like NRG Energy and renewable advocates like the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), who want badly to get the grid up and running.
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However, given the rapid increase in demand for natural resources from countries like China and other BRICS countries, they have become the new targets of resource extraction and could wind up like the Hotspots within a few decades.
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The proud studio that once put out films like Gone With the Wind and Doctor Zhivago has been reduced to middling hits like Hot Tub Time Machine and outright failures like the recent Fame remake.
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The larger your energy network, the better you can deal with the fundamental problems of cyclical power like solar and intermittent sources like wind, by pooling available energy and getting it to the users when needed.
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Costs for coal are highly dependent on the cost of gasoline, and the costs for wind are highly dependent on material costs like steel and concrete as wind requires about 10 times the amount of steel, concrete and copper per kWhr than any other energy source.
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In the '30s and '40s, voters routinely rewarded crowd-pleasers like Gone With the Wind and the Bing Crosby musical Going My Way.
Then there are the renewable portfolio standards, which mandate that a third of the state's energy come from renewable sources like wind and the sun by 2020.
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Recently, a flock of plastic bags has caught in the spindly sycamore in front of their apartment, empty bags that inflate and deflate with the wind like marooned sailing ships.
This sounds like a sports car, and with the wind in your hair, it feels like one, too.
And what we know is that the policy the President has pursued has led already to the doubling of production of renewable energy from sources like wind and solar since the President took office.
There's little forward protection apart from a little flycatcher 'screen, and yet the cabin is wide enough to scooch down into and hide from the wind blast that feels like the waft from a freshly opened stove.
And as we ramp up our percentage of renewable energy from variable sources like wind and solar, the need for this service is growing.
At Piper Alpha, where 167 men had died, huge pieces of debris had to be moved from the wellhead by cranes tossing like flotsam amid the wind and the waves.
The storied studio that produced classics like Gone With the Wind and 2001 is up for sale.
Researchers are leveraging GridEye to gain insight about the impact of integrating renewable-energy sources like solar photovoltaics and wind power into the mainstream power grid.
WEAs are areas being considered by state-federal government offshore wind task forces and large public-private wind power consortiums like the Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium.
The aromatics mingle in high, medium, and low registers, shifting with the wind, subtle and prickling, like memories you chase but can't quite close in on.
The other thing that we have to do is look at things like wind power and solar power and the next generation of electric vehicles.
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Like wind and sunlight, the power of gravity is an infinite resource.
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However, Willis changed ends, and bowling into the wind charged in like a man possessed to take 8-43, the best analysis of his career.
But I also believe that we've got to look at the energy sources of the future like wind and solar and biofuels, and make those investments.
The Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC), a quango with the ability to force through important national projects over the objections of locals, is supposed to make it easier to build power lines, storage plants, wind farms and the like.
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Google says it has been carbon neutral since 2007, offsetting its greenhouse gas emissions by signing contracts to purchase renewable energy from wind farms and the like and by buying carbon credits that help finance other green power projects.
Like China, the prodigious expansion of power production from renewable-energy resources like wind, solar energy and geothermal has outpaced the ability of the transmission systems to move these new power supplies to centers of demand.
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The poisonous hairs can be carried on the wind and are left in the caterpillars' silken, web-like nests, which they make in oak trees.
In some areas where the constraints are especially acute like Oregon and Washington State, the lack of spare transmission capacity could force wind farms that have already been built to shut down on a rolling basis in the near future.
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They fear a plastic look and that the downtown will wind up looking like Pier Village.
Otherwise, they will shoot at us, they'll engage us, they'll conduct attacks and then they'll vanish like vapors in the wind.
Use the latest technologies like wind and solar for water and power.
Beneath a railway bridge, Swiss artist Franziska Furter's "Mojo" (2012), a colorful concoction of magic amulets, hangs like a chandelier, moving and tinkling with the wind.
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