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.
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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The rising and setting of the sun controls many of our daily rituals, from when we eat breakfast in the morning to when we wind down at night.
Still, if the history of Thatcherism and Reaganism teaches anything, it is that ideas which are dismissed in one decade as the preserve of right-wing eccentrics can quickly move into the mainstream when the ideological wind changes.
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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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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For example, wind farms produce electricity only when the wind is blowing.
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.
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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There are some pockets of decent maritime warming right near the coast, which almost certainly are increasing snowfall substantially when the wind blows onshore.
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.
Renewable energy proponents dream of the days when wind, solar and other clean sources of electricity will account for over half of the U.S. power consumption.
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Expect to hear more about this from the First Minister, among others, when the offshore wind sector gathers in Aberdeen this week.
When the sun is at its most active, which is when it is spotty, the solar wind is stronger and fewer cosmic rays penetrate.
"There were also moments in which the waters were agitated and the wind against us when, as in the entire history of the Church, the Lord seemed asleep, " he added.
Simpson was thinking of laying up on the par-5 fifth hole when the rain and wind subsided, and he switched to a fairway metal and reached the green.
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.
Of course, this doesn't mean investors should throw caution to the wind when trading a low-volume ETF.
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.
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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When the wind from the west meets the wind from the east, the sand is pushed upward like the ocean waves the dunes resemble.
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