On its own, it has been compared unflatteringly to an elephant passing wind.

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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.

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Look, from a pure PR perspective, you could break out everything into its 25 component parts, spent several weeks selling the component parts of wind energy, and passing it -- would it have made a PR difference?

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Pier-decks are largely the resort of the old, who sit in cardigans out of the wind and watch the young passing.

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But any bias incident, from a Muslim being yelled at from a passing car, to a Muslim being profiled on a plane, can wind up in CAIR's report.

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To use that excess electricity (obviously, only excess when the wind is blowing just right, or the Sun shining) to electrolyse water by passing it through a fuel cell and then store the resultant hydrogen.

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