When the wind from the west meets the wind from the east, the sand is pushed upward like the ocean waves the dunes resemble.
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.
The study used satellite data to show that the building of huge wind farms in west Texas over the last decade has warmed the nights by up to 0.72C.
To really see the impact of regional airlines these days, just fly the longest flight in miles on a regional jet in the U.S. That's a 1, 501-mile United flight between Austin, Texas and San Francisco, which takes about four hours going west into the wind.
It forces competitors to sail west, against the wind and currents.
For some races, the combination of water flowing west and wind blowing east creates a series of choppy five-foot waves.
PARIS, France -- Frankie Dettori became the first jockey to win the Epsom Derby, French Derby and French Oaks in the same year as he partnered West Wind to an emphatic victory at Chantilly.
Among the numbers performed by the singer was a follow up to his song, The Wind, from his Cat Stevens days, called Wind East And West.
The company says that its Texas power lines are well situated to carry cheap juice from the many wind farms springing up across west Texas.
If the wind changes and pushes the slick west towards Texas's beaches, that might be manageable.
With the existing wind capacity, there have already been times in recent years when surpluses have been generated and Denmark has actually paid other countries to take the excess power supply (much like the situation in West Texas, where surpluses of wind occasionally result in negative pricing for short periods).
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Then the wind industry started to take hold in west Texas and the panhandle.
They turned down the application by ABO Wind UK Ltd to site eight turbines, each 125m high, on land north west of the village of Roberton.
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The wind is currently coming from the north-west, pushing the slick towards the mouth of the gulf and away from danger.
Now it is time to make a choice: you could catch a cab south to TriBeCa and finish the night in a grown-up fashion or continue on to the West Village and Meatpacking District in search of your second wind.
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The wind farm plans for Bagthorpe and Stanhoe were originally thrown out by West Norfolk Borough Council in 2011 but later approved by the inspector.
The Chiplow and Jack's Lane wind farm plans were originally thrown out by West Norfolk borough council in 2011.
The proposed wind farm would be located off the Dorset and Hampshire coast and to the west of the Isle of Wight.
Residents in west Norfolk have called on the High Court to reject the government's approval of two wind farms.
TenneT, which operates the grid in Schleswig-Holstein, wants to extend the wind park idea to the transmission network, offering stakes in a line along the west coast.
While Sandy visited devastation on the East Coast, principally New Jersey and New York, it created wind gusts as far west as Wisconsin and as far north as Canada and caused water levels to rise from Florida to Maine, the center found.
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