Conversely, there's no way to store excess electricity when the wind blows unexpectedly hard.
Detroit will be entering its most beautiful season, when the wind is warmer and the temperatures cooler.
When the wind blew, it really kicked up a sandstorm, but the dry air helped my asthmatic condition.
When the wind is blowing and gusting furiously I can feel the house actually lifting slightly as it gets underneath.
To that end, green fuels require back-up generation that kicks in when the wind dies down or the sun ceases to shine.
When the wind comes out of the southwest, you have to tack the sail this way and adjust to the prevailing conditions.
When the wind blows in the Netherlands, wind power can flow north.
For example, wind farms produce electricity only when the wind is blowing.
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.
When the wind from the west meets the wind from the east, the sand is pushed upward like the ocean waves the dunes resemble.
It gives us the illusion of security, although sometimes still when the wind picks up, I get a feeling I never had before the tornado.
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None of which, admittedly, is much comfort when the wind changes.
However, it will be closed when the wind speed exceeds 40mph.
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We entered the wind business in the late 1990s, when a wind-turbine company asked us to provide electricity from its site when the wind wasn't blowing.
At one unionised hotel, he recalls, the pool attendant was not allowed to take the deck chairs out of the pool when the wind blew them in.
Olympic silver medalist Michael Tinsley used the weather to his advantage to win the 400 hurdles, staying relaxed and rallying at the end when the wind was at his back.
On Oh When the Wind Comes Down, Hamman's visions of folk music are realized with rich imagery and entrancing instrumentation, as he crafts vivid storylines and long strings of compelling narration.
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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But there is a concession to sceptics about the government's ambitious targets, and the need to secure reliable baseload capacity to ensure power supplies when the wind drops and turbines stop working.
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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Argonne researchers are working on one possible solution to this problem: batteries that can store wind power for use when the wind stops blowing as well as store solar energy for use at night.
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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.
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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And skeptics are also saying that wind energy is an intermittent fuel that must always be backed up by a power source that can begin generating when the wind dies down, making it expensive to operate.
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.
The company would like to see a fraction of the credit go to utilities to compensate them for having to reserve space on their transmission systems and for having to run the back-up systems when the wind dies down.
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