• National Wind, LLC, A Trishe Group of Company, is a Minneapolis company founded in 2003 that is a developer of large-scale, community-based wind energy...
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    Colorado, NREL is home to the National Center for Photovoltaics, the National Bioenergy Center, and the National Wind Technology Center. The Solar Energy...
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    Wind Cave National Park is a national park of the United States located 10 miles (16 km) north of the town of Hot Springs in western South Dakota. Established...
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    Wind advisory Wind engineering List of local winds North wind South wind West wind East wind JetStream (2008). "Origin of Wind". National Weather Service...
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    Wind power is a branch of the energy industry that has expanded quickly in the United States over the last several years. From January through December...
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  • The Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS) classifies hurricanes—which in the Western Hemisphere are tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities...
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    extreme wind warning (SAME code EWW) is an alert issued by the National Weather Service for areas that will experience sustained surface winds 100 knots...
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    The National Wind Institute (NWI) at Texas Tech University (TTU) was established in December 2012, and is intended to serve as Texas Tech University's...
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  • Lubbock, the National Wind Institute (formerly the Wind Science and Engineering Research Center or WISE) was established. The National Wind Institute Center...
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    Wind turbine syndrome and wind farm syndrome are terms for the alleged medical condition related to the proximity of wind turbines. Proponents claim that...
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    Wind direction is generally reported by the direction from which the wind originates. For example, a north or northerly wind blows from the north to the...
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    GE Wind is a division of GE Vernova. The company manufactures and sells wind turbines to the international market. In 2018, GE Wind was the fourth largest...
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    In meteorology, wind speed, or wind flow speed, is a fundamental atmospheric quantity caused by air moving from high to low pressure, usually due to changes...
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    environmental impact of electricity generation from wind power is minor when compared to that of fossil fuel power. Wind turbines have some of the lowest global warming...
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    Gansu Wind Farm Project or Jiuquan Wind Power Base is a group of large wind farms under construction in western Gansu province in China. The Gansu Wind Farm...
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  • INOX Wind Limited is an Indian wind energy service provider, headquartered in Noida, India, and a subsidiary of the INOX Group. INOX Wind Limited manufactures...
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    Wind power is the use of wind energy to generate useful work. Historically, wind power was used by sails, windmills and windpumps, but today it is mostly...
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    of Wind Day (it did not become Global Wind Day until 2009) was organised by EWEA. The main idea was to coordinate events organised by national wind energy...
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    empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land. Its full name is the Beaufort wind force scale. The scale that carries...
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    Offshore wind power or offshore wind energy is the generation of electricity through wind farms in bodies of water, usually at sea. There are higher wind speeds...
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    Earth, Wind & Fire (abbreviated as EW&F or EWF) is an American band whose music spans the genres of jazz, R&B, soul, funk, disco, pop, Latin, and Afro-pop...
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    force of gravity. Such winds are sometimes also called fall winds; the spelling catabatic winds is also used. Katabatic winds can rush down elevated slopes...
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    prevailing wind in a region of the Earth's surface is a surface wind that blows predominantly from a particular direction. The dominant winds are the trends...
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    Wind chill (popularly wind chill factor) is the sensation of cold produced by the wind for a given ambient air temperature on exposed skin as the air motion...
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    renewable energy. Renewable electricity production, from sources such as wind power and solar power, is sometimes criticized for being variable or intermittent...
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    the National Wind Institute's research: The Wind Engineering Research Field Laboratory (WERFL) VorTECH, which is designed to simulate tornadic winds of...
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    A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. As of 2020[update], hundreds of thousands of large turbines...
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    A wind farm or wind park, also called a wind power station or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity...
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  • Earth, Wind & Fire released as a single on November 18, 1978, by ARC/Columbia Records. Initially included as a track for The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire...
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  • The Cape Wind Project was a proposed offshore wind energy project on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. It was projected...
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