The prospect of a future powered by the sun and the wind is so appealing that it obscures a less charming fact: coal is going nowhere soon.
Or what will help you figure out a way to use the sun and the wind to power a city and give us new energy sources that are less polluting.
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Morris says he favors new renewable sources, but the "Achilles' heel" for solar and wind is the fact that the sun shines brighter and the wind blows harder in the West and Great Plains.
Petrino told the police investigating the crash that the sun and wind had caused him to lose control and crash into a pile of dirt and tree limbs on the side of the road, according to the police report.
Otegui imagines (see photos) merging living organisms to form a complex skin which will absorb and then utilize the energy created by the sun and wind.
Though the coach has an enclosed interior, passengers usually sit topside on benches, the better to take in the passing show: the wind and sun, fresh air, wildflowers, townspeople waving and, of course, the occasional whiff of horse emissions.
Her skin, every follicle and flaw in focus in the ground glass of his lens, had the same sun- and sea-wind weathering, but fainter, of the stones of the Californian desert, and her hips had the convolutions of the naked mountains.
In the quest to tap new sources of renewable energy, scientists are turning to the sun, to the wind, and of course, to a variety of bio-derived fuel alternatives.
The nuclear shutdown plus the caprices of wind and sun could play havoc with electricity supplies unless new infrastructure is built quickly, warn the power companies.
The sky was clear and the sun shone brightly on a heavy snow pack, but it was cold and the wind was blowing.
Sun dapples the fairways, and wind rustles the trees in each of the 15 courses it has captured so far, including Congressional, Bethpage Black, Olympic Club, Pinehurst No. 8, the Old Course at St.
The Sun's magnetic field and solar wind - mainly in the form of electrons and protons coming out of the Sun - protects the entire Solar System by acting as a sort of shield from cosmic rays (very energetic particles and radiation from outer space).
The Freedom to get your own Power from the Wind and Sun, Solar Energy has been there for years.
One of the ironies of the power crisis is that, instead of profiting from increased prices, small generators that use renewable sources of energy such as the wind and the sun have been driven almost to collapse by the failure of the utilities to pay them.
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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But experts note that even renewables need conventional backup, since the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow.
His face, the little that wasn't covered by his thick beard, seemed unaffected by his years of hardship and overexposure to the desert wind and sun.
Very soon most all on earth will be able to get energy by recharging from the sun and wind.
The young man, who was tall and thin, with sun-streaked fair hair, and a wind- and sun-burned face, who wore the sun-faded flannel shirt, a pair of peasant's trousers and rope-soled shoes, leaned over, put his arm through one of the leather pack straps and swung the heavy pack up onto his shoulders.
There will also, according to Charlie Bolden, NASA's administrator, be a mission to the sun, to study the solar wind, and one to improve the agency's ability to detect and catalogue interesting (but potentially dangerous) asteroids that pass near Earth.
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However, once the sun drops and wind rises, there is a science to survival that is not necessarily addressed by technology.
Even as the sun came out Friday afternoon, the wind continued and was especially a factor on the 18th, playing dead into the breeze.
" We already have everything we need to use the sun, the wind, geothermal power, conservation and efficiency to solve the climate crisis everything, that is, except a president who inspires us to believe, "Yes, we can.
"We already have everything we need to use the sun, the wind, geothermal power, conservation and efficiency to solve the climate crisis everything, that is, except a president who inspires us to believe, 'Yes, we can, '" Gore said.
That's going to finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America -- legislation that will make the best use of resources we have in abundance, through clean coal technology, safe nuclear power, sustainably grown biofuels, and energy we harness from the wind, waves, and sun.
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It is, first, an account of the many ways in which people have sought to produce energy by burning fossil fuels, harvesting the wind, brewing biodiesel and trapping the sun's heat.
These craft will study the interaction between the solar wind (the breeze of electrically charged particles emitted by the sun) and the earth's magnetic field.
As the sun sinks below the horizon, the wind freshens slightly and bells on the golden umbrellas above the pagodas begin to tinkle.
They need to guard against the wind, sun, and lack of water among other forces.
"Constantly we are monitoring weather forecasts to keep in line with the sun, plotting our route, examining wind, wave and current predictions, communicating with other vessels on the satellite phone, updating our blog and logging our positions, " he said.
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