There's also a handful of elements that we seldom see in these apps, such as a direction-relative wind indicator, optional motion-driven navigation and visual themes.

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Khobaib Hussain, Ishaaq Hussain and Ali were forced to return just three days later after a relative got wind of the real reason for their journey.

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But except for the relative few who caught wind earlier this year of the Japan 2022 Bid Committee promotion video and the interviews around it, there was astonishment over the technology itself.

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And the relative treeless vistas means the wind blows.

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The Met Office's "feels like temperature" takes into account expected air temperature, relative humidity and the strength of the wind at around 5 feet (1.5m) - the typical height of a person's face.

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Can a relative newcomer seriously challenge the Europeans, who have dominated the wind electricity business in the past 40 years?

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For the average industry, the average company, we can make huge progress on solar, we can make huge progress on wind, but the unit costs -- energy costs that you get from those technologies relative to coal are still going to be pretty substantial.

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