Property owners are earning millions of dollars leasing land for wind turbines.
Mr. Son estimates that Mongolian wind power would cost around three to four yen (four to five cents) per kilowatt-hour, if land for wind farms could be leased virtually free.
Wind tends to blow more forcefully and uniformly over the ocean than on land, providing the potential for increased electricity generation and smoother, steadier operation than land-based wind power systems.
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Closer to land, the wind lifts to enter the beaches and climb over the cliffs.
In coastal areas of the United States, offshore resources tend to dwarf the land-based wind component with the exception of California, Texas, Maine and a few other states.
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Land-based wind turbines are reasonably cheap but function best in the sort of windswept beauty spots that locals like to keep unblemished, so many have stalled in the planning process.
He argued that the sea gets it iron from dust swept into the sea from the land, and that wind currents weren't carrying iron to HNLC areas.
Ben Collard, director of renewables at George F White, said he was advising his clients to set rent on land used for a wind turbine at ten per cent of the estimated income.
In relation to wind farms, the proposals include strengthening environmental protection in the 31% of Scotland covered by the wildest and most scenic land, including no wind farms in the 19% of Scotland covered by National Parks and National Scenic Areas.
The federal government recently announced two initiatives to open up millions of acres of public land for solar power project development, and it highlighted seven wind and solar projects on public land in a press release on Tuesday.
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In addition, the robot wings can land to avoid damage if wind speeds are too high or during bad weather.
Wind farms on land are increasingly controversial but they do represent the cheapest feasible way of meeting CO2 targets.
The Obama administration has proposed putting government land designated for solar and wind development off limits to mining claims for at least two years.
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Indeed, it points to such laudable projects such as a low-cost, wind-powered land mine detonator -- not exactly the kind of thing one would pick up on the next Target run (even on sale).
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Aircraft typically take off or land against the direction of the wind, which increases the lift to their wings.
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It has also selected more than 20 million acres of public land in 11 western states with wind capabilities.
Environmentalists successfully blocked a proposed 500 megawatt wind project on private land in a remote part of Montana near the Canadian border planned by GreenHunter Energy.
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The tide has changed and a south wind forces me to land this particular day on the shore near the Tomales Bay Oyster Company, which sits across the water from Inverness.
For example, multiple pipelines could go on one right of way, or wind turbines might go on land already barren because of old coal mining.
For example, multiple pipelines could be placed on one right of way, or wind turbines might go on land that is already barren because of old coal mining.
How is it that some givers, like Hornik, land on top, while other givers wind up on the bottom, as pushovers and doormats, failing to advance their own interests?
Cyclone Mohasen is expected to land in Bangladesh on Thursday, but strong wind and rain will be felt earlier, there and in Myanmar.
Up to 15 percent of our potential wind energy resources are on Native American land, and the potential for solar energy is even higher.
The slick is now about 20 miles (32km) off the coast of Louisiana, but wind projections indicate it will not reach land before Saturday.
It could wind down because the atmosphere-, land-, and water-based ecosystems that provide both tangible necessities and myriad unseen benefits become degraded. or maybe we ourselves will attempt to restrain the growth spiral by preemptively limiting resource consumption and curbing climatic and ecological disruption.
To match that output using wind energy, you'd need a land area nearly the size of Rhode Island.
Wind and solar power also require huge amounts of land and expansive transmission lines to deliver electricity from remote sites.
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That can be understood by comparing the land use needs of a nuclear plant with those of a wind energy project or a corn ethanol operation.
As mentioned above, the new leasing approval process replaces a one-size-fits-all approach with one customized to the proposed use of the land, be it a new home, business, or wind or solar energy project.
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Three national environmental groups on Friday sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over its approval of a planned NextEra Energy Resources wind farm in the Tehachapi region of California that state and federal wildlife officials had warned threatens the critically endangered California condor.
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