For example, the wind can make a heat island stretch in the direction it blows.

比如，风可以将热岛沿着它吹的方向延伸。

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Nothing then was altered in the plan, and orders were given to get under weigh next night, and, wind and weather permitting, to make the neutral island by the following day.

所以商定的计划决不再做变更，大家同意：第二天夜里就出发，假如风向和天气允许的话，就设法在第三天傍晚到达那个中立小岛的海面上。

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There is no offshore wind farm yet in the U.S., but the controversial Cape wind project near Nantucket Island is moving closer to approval.

美国还没有海上风电场，但是颇具争议的、靠近楠塔基特岛的鳕鱼岬海上风电场项目即将获得批准。

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You can smell the ocean on the soft warm wind that blows across the island.

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Angus Campbell said questions needed to be asked about the costs and time scale of the link, which would allow electricity generated by island wind and marine renewables to be transmitted to the mainland.

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In 2007, the roughly 1, 000 year-round residents of Vinalhaven, a long and narrow island located about 15 miles off the coast of central Maine in the Penobscot Bay, decided that building a wind farm on the island was the only way they would survive endlessly elevated electricity prices.

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National Grid announced an agreement Thursday to buy power from a small project set to be built by Deepwater Wind near Block Island, R.

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