One of the ironies of the power crisis is that, instead of profiting from increased prices, small generators that use renewable sources of energy such as the wind and the sun have been driven almost to collapse by the failure of the utilities to pay them.
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.
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.
The nuclear shutdown plus the caprices of wind and sun could play havoc with electricity supplies unless new infrastructure is built quickly, warn the power companies.
Otegui imagines (see photos) merging living organisms to form a complex skin which will absorb and then utilize the energy created by the sun and wind.
Then there are the renewable portfolio standards, which mandate that a third of the state's energy come from renewable sources like wind and the sun by 2020.
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It is, first, an account of the many ways in which people have sought to produce energy by burning fossil fuels, harvesting the wind, brewing biodiesel and trapping the sun's heat.
The prospect of a future powered by the sun and the wind is so appealing that it obscures a less charming fact: coal is going nowhere soon.
Petrino told the police investigating the crash that the sun and wind had caused him to lose control and crash into a pile of dirt and tree limbs on the side of the road, according to the police report.
The Freedom to get your own Power from the Wind and Sun, Solar Energy has been there for years.
He drives home, feeling the wind in his hair and the sun on his face.
His face, the little that wasn't covered by his thick beard, seemed unaffected by his years of hardship and overexposure to the desert wind and sun.
Her skin, every follicle and flaw in focus in the ground glass of his lens, had the same sun- and sea-wind weathering, but fainter, of the stones of the Californian desert, and her hips had the convolutions of the naked mountains.
The Sun's magnetic field and solar wind - mainly in the form of electrons and protons coming out of the Sun - protects the entire Solar System by acting as a sort of shield from cosmic rays (very energetic particles and radiation from outer space).
Seventy years ago and more, everybody knew which way the wind blew, and which way windows should face to get the most sun (south, in the United States), and built their houses accordingly.
These craft will study the interaction between the solar wind (the breeze of electrically charged particles emitted by the sun) and the earth's magnetic field.
In the quest to tap new sources of renewable energy, scientists are turning to the sun, to the wind, and of course, to a variety of bio-derived fuel alternatives.
That's going to finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America -- legislation that will make the best use of resources we have in abundance, through clean coal technology, safe nuclear power, sustainably grown biofuels, and energy we harness from the wind, waves, and sun.
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The young man, who was tall and thin, with sun-streaked fair hair, and a wind- and sun-burned face, who wore the sun-faded flannel shirt, a pair of peasant's trousers and rope-soled shoes, leaned over, put his arm through one of the leather pack straps and swung the heavy pack up onto his shoulders.
An analysis of the solar wind is expected to provide clues about the composition of the sun and origins of our solar system.
The sky was clear and the sun shone brightly on a heavy snow pack, but it was cold and the wind was blowing.
Get lost on the roads that wind their way up and down the hills of the Black Forest, where the summer sun filters through the canopy of trees to dapple the road in front of you.
The good news is that many of the sensitive wafers which had been collecting particles of solar wind (charged atoms and molecules that stream out of the sun) survived the subsequent crash intact.
We should be investing in safe, clean energy from the wind, waves and sun.
Very soon most all on earth will be able to get energy by recharging from the sun and wind.
We should be building an affordable power system based on our abundant clean energy from the wind, waves and sun.
Even as the sun came out Friday afternoon, the wind continued and was especially a factor on the 18th, playing dead into the breeze.
Investing in clean British energy from the wind, waves and Sun - along with a major energy-saving drive - would create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, boost energy security and keep the lights on.
"We already have everything we need to use the sun, the wind, geothermal power, conservation and efficiency to solve the climate crisis everything, that is, except a president who inspires us to believe, 'Yes, we can, '" Gore said.
They need to guard against the wind, sun, and lack of water among other forces.
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