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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.
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The researchers modeled their study on the electric grid in Illinois, which depends on a large number of coal and gas plants, and where the wind blows strongest at night, when demand is lowest.
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Then the wind sweeps the hilltop and blows in some weather.
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Wind turbines can only supply electricity when the wind blows, and as long as inexpensive energy storage remains elusive, utility companies will have to combine wind with a resource that can be banked in reserve, like gas.
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"You run through a field and the paraglider wing catches the wind, it fills with air, blows you off the ground, you switch on the motor and off you go, you're flying, " he said.
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Yet wind is far from a perfect source of electricity, since the wind blows when and where it will.
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And the relative treeless vistas means the wind blows.
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Whereas the prevailing moral wind used to blow reliably from the warm and indulgent south, now it blows also from the cold and prickly north.
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Unless you're fine with just seeing where the wind blows you -- and hey, we're all for spontaneous travel at times -- you'll lose a lot of time on the ground if you don't have at least an idea of the layout of your destination before you arrive.
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Scotland has lots of wind, but it blows above deep water, and the cost of grid connection is much higher.
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