The need to carry around an outlet charger could be supplanted by time spent listening to music, or perhaps even the sound of the wind roaring past your car window.
The dull roar of the wind, rushing past at a speed of eight knots, punctuated by the occasional pop of the canvas sail that billows and gusts below my dangling feet.
In the upper Midwest, thousands of homes and businesses also lost power because of heavy wet snow, ice and wind in the past couple of days, while rain and snow raised flooding concerns in various areas of the Midwest.
Locals blamed earthquakes, local salt mines, an underground river and wind turbines in the past.
The stakes are higher this time: Over the past decade wind component manufacturers have set up shop in the U.S. to make turbines, blades and other parts for the massive machines near where wind farms are being built.
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Can a relative newcomer seriously challenge the Europeans, who have dominated the wind electricity business in the past 40 years?
This caused him to wind up flying 40 miles past the landing field at Mach 3 (2, 000 mph) before turning back, and only narrowly miss some trees.
As in years past, the houses wind down with sales of Old Master paintings and antiquities from Europe, Africa, and the Near East.
If he came here to Iowa, he might know that 20 percent of Iowa's electricity now comes from wind energy. (Applause.) Over the past 4 years, America has doubled its -- the amount of electricity that is produced from wind, and this is enough to power 13 million homes with clean and renewable energy.
As we're chatting, penguins are filing past us like a line of wind-up dolls.
Simpson used his long putter for his third and it looked set to finish close to the cup until a massive gust of wind saw it roll over six-feet past.
Ms Evans said she recently drove past it and felt the effect of the wind.
Announcements by National Grid and NRG Energy over the past few weeks have boosted prospects for offshore wind.
"We have worked very hard over the past two years on the design of the wind farm, " he said.
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It is more likely that the culture of the increasingly child-free northern tier and the slow-growth coasts will, to evoke the past, be the ones gone with the wind.
Yet over the past year the U.S. solar and wind companies have struggled.
This intimate story, bringing together the northern light reflected off water, the cold wind, the fear of poverty, the weight of the past, and the lack of a future, has a soulful, epic grandeur.
Great trucks thundered past, showering her with grit, and a fierce wind got up that made her stagger.
Over the past 10 years the Crown Estate has held five offshore wind leasing rounds, the most recent being Round Three.
There has also been a fall in the past 12 months by 50% in planning approvals for wind farms in England, a situation that is also reflected in Scotland.
Much of that will wind up in the hands of incumbent carriers as it has in the past.
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In years past, the search giant has signed power purchase agreements with wind developers to buy the electricity generated by their projects.
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State mandates for renewable energy generation have driven much of the increase in solar, wind, geothermal, biomass and other forms of clean power over the past decade.
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The draft EU constitution now has more opponents than supporters in Finland, but then the wind of globalisation has swept over Finland with a harsh hand over the past year.
Wind and natural gas have comprised the preponderance of installed generation capacity in the past decade.
Over the past five years the Russians developed a prototype of a vertical axis wind turbine with an innovative airfoil that enables the turbine to self-start.
The energy crisis of the past few months, in short, has made Americans look at wind with a new interest and this time the interest may be justified.
The price of solar cells fell by 20 per cent in 2012 alone, whilst the cost of a wind turbine fell by almost 10 per cent, continuing the trend of the past decade.
In the past, all technologies were subsidised equally, so most investment went into onshore wind, the cheapest source of renewable energy.
Yet, over the past year, the rapid growth in the U.S. solar and wind industries has stalled and investment fallen sharply.
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