There is no doubt: we would have a diverse array of world class wind turbines for a variety of commercial and retail uses today.
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When completed, the London Array will be one of the world's largest offshore wind farms covering an area of 90 sq m (232 sq km) between Margate and Clacton.
In the world of commercial property investment, the wind has blown through the newly rehabilitated house of securitization, leaving it shaken once again but not flattened.
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.
Sales and profits had both doubled, and it had captured more than half of the Indian market, becoming the world's fifth-largest maker of wind-turbine generators.
Danish company Vestas is the world's biggest supplier of wind turbines.
One of the world's largest wind farms is being built in Kenya not far from the new-found oil in Turkana.
From 2003 to 2011, researchers monitored satellite data for west-central Texas, which is home to 2, 350-plus turbines and four of the world's largest wind farms.
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For example, India is the world's fourth-biggest producer of wind power.
It now has the largest installed base of wind power in the world, and is targeting to have 20 percent of its energy sourced from renewables by 2020.
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German company TimberTower celebrated the installation of the world's first wooden wind turbine tower in Hanover, and for the annual Glow Festival, Eindhoven unveiled an impressive glowing dome made from 30, 000 LEDs.
Boone Pickens stole the spotlight with his plans to build the world's largest wind farm slightly north of Amarillo in the Texas panhandle, the state's most powerful wind energy resources remain untapped.
In other news, the world of renewable energy is jolting for joy as Southwest Wind Power unveiled the world's first fully smart grid-enabled windturbine.
It says the world's installed wind capacity at the end of 2002 was 31, 128 megawatts, with Denmark the leading user, generating 20 percent of its electricity from the wind.
Even in 2035, with the most optimistic scenario, the International Energy Agency estimates that just 2.4% of the world's energy will come from wind and only 1% from solar.
At the same time, Beijing wants to cut back rare earth exports to the rest of the world, instead encouraging domestic production into wind and solar products for export around the world.
China is now the leading producer of solar cells and wind turbines in the world.
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Three decades ago, the U.S. led the world in another arena - the development of renewable energy such as wind, solar, and geothermal power.
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In a world in which our electricity is delivered without the whirr of a wind turbine, we need to be more creative about getting consumers to pay attention to energy use.
As China expands its own use of energy, including that from renewable sources, the nation intends to hold-back its exports of REEs for its own use, with potential impacts on the development of renewable energy such as from wind across the world.
Today, it is alive and humming with more than 600 employees at work manufacturing some of the most advanced blades for wind turbines in the world.
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The great river of wind that flows from Texas to the Canadian border is one of the finest renewable energy reserves in the world and the American Wind Energy Association estimates that it could power America twice over.
Sir Elton holds the record for the world's best-selling single - a version of Candle in the Wind that sold more than 33 million copies when it was released in tribute to Princess Diana in 1997.
The world still needs energy, argues Steve Sawyer, the head of the Global Wind Energy Council, an industry group, and even if banks are slower to lend, utilities can often afford to pay for new generation out of their own revenues.
The company already ranks as the world's eighth-largest producer (in terms of installed capacity) of wind turbine generators.
"It wasn't easy for the both of us with the heat and the wind, " said the world No. 2, who is seeded third.
Energy has driven the world for over a thousand years Wind, Hydro and Solar are the oldest forms of energy giving power to all smart enough to use it.
Count hydropower, biomass, tidal, geothermal, waste-to-energy, solar and wind, and you have only 6.1% of the rich world's energy supply in 1995.
In both instances, the Met Office failed to predict the movements of the jet stream - the high-level wind that races round the world 10km above the surface.
And so over time you can wind up adopting an entire suite of false but internally consistent beliefs about the world.
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