It is a wind machine he first saw in California seven years ago which he thought might just be able to protect his apple crop back home from frost.
"It is true that doing wind in urban environments is a lot trickier than in rural environments, " said Johanna Partin, San Francisco's Renewable Energy Program manager, who also coordinates the task force.
When the sun is at its most active, which is when it is spotty, the solar wind is stronger and fewer cosmic rays penetrate.
It is building huge wind farms on its coastline and even runs some hydrogen-fuelled buses in Beijing.
It is essential that wind energy not be directly put into the grid, even a smart grid, but used as locally as possible.
As the government pays for senior citizens' drug costs, it is likely to wind up footing the bill for a large fraction of cancer drugs.
"Strife is knocking on the doors of everyone, and no-one will survive if it enters, because there is a wind behind it, and money, and plans, " he added, without giving details.
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Those objectives may only be possible if energy storage is eventually commercialized, or the ability to bottle and release the wind when it is not blowing.
It is also forecast thunderstorm wind damage for parts of the Southeast into the early morning hours Wednesday.
It is a pity that you are not allowed to go any higher, as it is exciting swaying with the wind at the top.
On the other hand, if you guess that the rustle in the grass is the wind but it turns out to be a hungry lion, your mistake is more serious: The lion was real but you thought it wasn't (a "false negative").
As a result, it is bombarded by the solar wind and this might have resulted in the loss of water and oxygen.
In addition, it is calling for new offshore wind farms to be connected to the National Grid using underground cables to existing substations.
But marine energy will not be competitive with wind for many years, and it is hard to see why, having missed the opportunity to build wind turbines, Britain's factory-owners will be more adroit when it comes to ocean power.
It might seem odd that at a time when Deutsche wants to wind down its industrial holdings it is buying up companies with such gusto.
Rather, it is a force, a prevailing wind blowing mankind into the next millennium.
When EU summits wind down, it is customary for the leaders present to make a short and conciliatory closing statement.
It is still possible that changes in wind patterns and longer-term natural climate shifts may slow the currently tumultuous process of decline.
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The price of such generation is greater than that of onshore wind, adding that in some cases it is two to three times more.
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"At the moment we are looking at various wind turbines as it is important to find out about noise and also the visual impact, " he added.
It is developing giant off-shore wind turbines, biomass power plants (including projects in Florida and Washington with Duke Energy), and, with its Ausra acquisition, solar thermal power plants.
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It is also in the process of constructing 404 megawatts of wind generation in 2012, which is still eligible for the current production tax credit.
It is possible, of course, that this is mere coincidence: no wind and cold weather at the same time, bound to happen sometimes.
"We are determined that the Syrian opposition is not going to be dangling in the wind wondering where the support is or if it is coming, " Kerry said from London.
The result is that, if you wind the handle faster, it gets harder to turn, and the battery is charged more quickly.
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