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 also an "enabler" for renewable energy, providing a source of electricity that can step in to fill the gap when the wind is not blowing or the sun is not shining.
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Key decisions on how to ensure there are enough gas power stations to keep the lights on when the wind is not blowing will be announced alongside the chancellor's Autumn Statement.
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Resignations are more common when litigation is in the wind and dismissals more frequently result from disagreements about issues such as internal control weaknesses and the reliability of financial reporting.
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And when the solar wind is stronger, it is better at shielding the earth from high-energy charged particles from outer space known as cosmic rays.
Detroit will be entering its most beautiful season, when the wind is warmer and the temperatures cooler.
When the wind is blowing and gusting furiously I can feel the house actually lifting slightly as it gets underneath.
For example, wind farms produce electricity only when the wind is blowing.
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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But even when the alternative is to burn fossil fuels, the wind game likely wouldn't exist without tax breaks.
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.
None of which, admittedly, is much comfort when the wind changes.
They say that the current arrangements mean that energy companies continue to make money even when there is a surplus of wind and the market price is negative.
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When the wind from the west meets the wind from the east, the sand is pushed upward like the ocean waves the dunes resemble.
Thorton's career is on the line when a gossip columnist gets wind that she's having an affair with a magazine writer assigned to cover the campaign.
Yet wind is far from a perfect source of electricity, since the wind blows when and where it will.
When EU summits wind down, it is customary for the leaders present to make a short and conciliatory closing statement.
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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"It is clear that many investors threw caution to the wind when making investment decisions and were seduced into investing in products they did not understand by the alluring prospect of high returns, " it said.
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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He is back on terra firma when he argues that the euro will put a strong wind behind the liberalisation of capital markets and will help set Europe's over-regulated economies free.
How do we -- when we read these articles in the paper that China is just exploding in terms of wind turbine manufacturing and solar panel manufacturing -- how do we rebuild our manufacturing sector with a manufacturing policy, combined with an energy policy that gets us there?
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If this technology is adopted when wind prices are low or even potentially negative, it can supplant the need for fossil fuel-based heating.
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So of course, when wars begin to wind down, the system manages the way in which funding is reallocated with a close eye to how power relationships might be impacted.
We're at a moment right now when homegrown energy, like wind energy, is creating new jobs all across Iowa and all across the country.
Currently, Spirit is examining a series of specimens that were perhaps formed when wind-borne volcanic ash fell to the ground, mixed with water and eventually formed into layered rock.
Although this estimate is likely to shrink by at least half when non-technical constraints are taken into account, the offshore wind resource still seems prodigious.
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The owner of a wind farm would be paid when wind speeds were low and not much power is produced, and would pay money out when winds were unseasonably strong.
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