The world’s third-largest economy, then, is 13th in the world’s windpower league table.

作为世界第三大经济体，日本在世界风能利用排行榜位列第13位。

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Scientists have spent decades trying to invent ways of trapping so-called renewable energy, such as sunlight or windpower, that will last forever.

科学家们已花了几十年的时间,试图发明能够收集象太阳能和风能等取之不尽的可再生能源的方法。

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More recently on Tyneside, Clipper Windpower, an American company, has started to build a factory for making giant offshore wind turbines.

最近在泰恩赛德，快船风能——一家美国公司——已开始兴建巨大的离岸风力涡轮机制造工厂。

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The folks at Southwest Windpower in Flagstaff, Arizona started their company in a small home.

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But developers REG Windpower said other aviation bodies, including the Ministry of Defence, have not objected.

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Clipper Windpower has struggled to compete against big wind turbine makers like General Electric, Siemens and Vestas.

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