Conversely, there's no way to store excess electricity when the wind blows unexpectedly hard.
Each tower pays the landowner 6 to 10 thousand dollars a year, depending on how the wind blows.
Because the wind blows inconsistently, power companies would have to turn fossil-fuel plants on when windmills fall still.
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Yet wind is far from a perfect source of electricity, since the wind blows when and where it will.
We also heard about a nifty acoustic wind pavilion in London that makes music whenever the wind blows.
When the wind blows in the Netherlands, wind power can flow north.
But just as when the wind blows a leaf upward, the law of gravity remains intact, so too with the law of demand.
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There are some pockets of decent maritime warming right near the coast, which almost certainly are increasing snowfall substantially when the wind blows onshore.
However, when you look at the media hype every time the wind blows she is supposedly back with the loser John whats his name or she is seeing Brad Split from Jolie.
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In places, even its primeval marrow juts out: where the river flattens we slide evenly past eerie, vertical folds of Vishnu schist, which our guides tell us whistle when the wind blows through its billion-year-old fins.
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.
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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We are market participants and so, unlike bloggers who are discussing sports, music or fashion, we have a deeply rooted yearning (perhaps a need even) to understand which way the wind blows at all times.
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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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.
Not everyone is convinced that wind-power is the most reliant route to clean, renewable carbon-free energy, and it is concerning that Britain is relying on a power source that must be backed up by more constant technologies such as nuclear, coal, or gas, because the wind blows inconsistently, as is its nature.
The wind typically blows east at more than 25 knots, or 29 miles per hour.
The tallest part of the tower block is side-on to the river, along which the prevailing wind blows.
Lord knows when the cold wind blows, it'll turn my head around.
It's big and shiny, built in 90 days, but the contractor put it together in a way that when the first stiff wind comes, the house blows down.
"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.
"When they come close to the Sun, this ice melts - solar wind blows this material out into space, so you get a tail of matter coming off the comet, " explains O'Brien.
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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Scotland has lots of wind, but it blows above deep water, and the cost of grid connection is much higher.
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