And all this interspersed by hours adrift on the river, planks and ropes gently creaking in the wind, the water dark and cool, the night sky clear above.

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Washington had warmed up, the swift storm of the previous day had passed, the sky was overcast but the air wasn't painful in a wind-chill way, and the capital was full of men in cowboy hats and women in long furs.

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We stood up now and then to get our circulation going, and it was always the same: the wind was always blowing, there was always a semblance of moon, always in the same spot in the sky, and in front of the moon a fantastic cavalcade of ragged clouds, always the same.

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But under the husky winter sky, where snowflakes twirl down toward the ground in a dizzy spiral and the wind bites your cheeks, something is brewing.

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In October 2012, The Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club, filed suit in the Kern County Superior Court in Bakersfield, California to reopen an environmental review of a 100-turbine North Sky River wind project and a smaller adjacent Jawbone project in the mountains north of the Mojave Desert over threats to California condors.

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In Hinduism each wick of the candle represents one of the five elements: wind, earth, fire, sky and water.

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They can be located where conventional small wind turbines would not be possible let a lone allowed -- such as the numerous balconies and sky scraper roofs in cities like Hong Kong.

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