In the center of the ocean, wind-driven currents bring fresh water to the surface, so stirring the ocean could transform it into a well-organized storage depot.

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Wind-driven swells slapped over the tops of breakwaters and turned waves into a churning froth under piers at points such as Redondo Beach and Manhattan Beach on the Los Angeles County coast.

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The Swedish government is funding research into the feasibility of using a wind-turbine driven oxygen pump in the Baltic, following studies carried out last year by the University of Gothenburg, which looked at the effect of pumping oxygen-rich surface water to the bottom of two Swedish fjords.

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There's also a handful of elements that we seldom see in these apps, such as a direction-relative wind indicator, optional motion-driven navigation and visual themes.

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With the real possibility that the policy-driven demand for wind turbines would dry up in any given year, companies were understandably wary of investing in large manufacturing facilities in the United States.

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In the open-wheel race cars I had driven previously, wind buffets your helmet violently, and the noise is deafening--nothing relaxing about it.

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Credit Suisse and UBS published reports recently highlighting that fiscally-fit Germany and its industrial export-driven companies are likely to wind up winners amid the turmoil in Europe.

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In their bid to simplify loading 35mm film, Kodak, Fuji and other photographic firms squared off the 35mm roll's lead-in tab so a modern SLR's motor-driven loading mechanism could grab the film's sprocket holes and wind it automatically onto the take-up spool.

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