Germany already produces 40% of all the world's wind power, and the hope is that by 2010, wind will meet 12.5% of German energy needs.

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With a little more wind, the Chinese might have rounded the Cape of Good Hope.

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What happens when these social-media savants go back to the ballet (which I hope they do) and wind up at a program of "only" Balanchine and Robbins?

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It might not look full of promise but a lot of hope is hanging on a big grey box at a Cornwall wind farm.

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Members of the project hope that future habitants on the planet will be able to harness the wind, water deposits and soil to become self-sufficient.

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Even Davies, who has been in fine form since manager Owen Coyle took over at the Trotters in January, had given up any hope of making the national team and admitted he thought the news was a "wind-up" at first.

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But a series of announcements since August, capped by the Shepherd's Flat project, has given the wind industry some hope.

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There is more hope for offshore wind, which is technically trickier, since North Sea oil has left a legacy of marine-engineering expertise in Britain.

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