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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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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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 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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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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Older Wind (born 7 February 1999) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg and the Denmark national team...
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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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Beaufort scale (redirect from Beaufort Wind Scale)
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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Saffir–Simpson scale (redirect from Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale)
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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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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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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The North Wind and the Sun is one of Aesop's Fables (Perry Index 46). It is type 298 (Wind and Sun) in the Aarne–Thompson folktale classification. The...
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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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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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Cold weather advisory (redirect from Wind Chill Advisory)
known as a wind chill advisory until October 2024) is a hazardous weather statement issued by Weather Forecast Offices (WFO) of the National Weather Service...
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Energy in Texas (section Wind)
is also the national leader in wind power generation, comprising about 28% of national wind powered electrical production in 2019. Wind power surpassed...
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Vineyard Wind 1 is an offshore wind farm under construction in U.S. federal waters in the Atlantic Ocean in Bureau of Ocean Energy Management-designated...
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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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offshore wind farms within the national maritime boundaries of the United Kingdom. In October 2023 the nameplate capacity of offshore wind farms in operation...
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Concert band (redirect from Wind or concert band)
band, also called a wind band, wind ensemble, wind symphony, wind orchestra, symphonic band, the symphonic winds, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing...
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