Some experts, citing physical and regulatory hurdles, view the urban wind movement as misconceived.

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Despite this rule of thumb, there is a burgeoning movement to bring small-wind power to cities as well.

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President Obama is aligning himself with the green movement, pointing out that wind and solar projects have doubled in size since 2008.

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About an hour later, I was part of the mass movement of students going in opposite directions, in wind-whipped snow, two roughly parallel columns moving from old campus to new and vice versa, faces in ski masks, bodies shouldering into the wind or pushed along by it.

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If air movement up and down the mountain's slope governed wind direction, dominant winds generally would be north-south.

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Wind power is growing fast around the world and America, especially Texas, is leading the movement.

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The Welsh Assembly Government said it was "working closely with affected highway authorities, police forces and the wind energy industry to resolve the transportation issues and develop a strategic traffic management approach to the movement of these loads".

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Roll Over and Die Laughing IBM's momentous decision this month to wind down its traditional pension plan in favor of 401(k)s will no doubt accelerate the movement toward self-directed retirement savings.

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In the ocean, most of the movement of heat and salt, the real Thermohaline Circulation, is driven directly and indirectly by the wind field.

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