• By Sunday night, despite predictions of light wind, Outrageous was surfing on 25 knots of wind.

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  • Wind turbines seem to be sprouting from every hilltop, and if you get close, you can hear them spinning lazily in a light wind.

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  • On his first visit, Mr. Heuken takes in light, wind, grass and gravel.

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  • Federer made light of swirling wind and the roar of helicopters buzzing over center court as he tore through the first set in 36 minutes.

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  • "This FAA approval allows Cape Wind to move forward and jump-start the new American industry in offshore wind power that will help light up the East Coast, " Cape Wind spokesman Mark Rogers told CNN.

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  • Mr Lloyd wanted orchids and fritillaries to grow there, but also hoped to enjoy the wind and light in the grass.

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  • The wind fell light, and Broad Bay trembled almost to a halt.

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  • In addition to these goodies, the solar wind carries light elements such as helium to the moon's surface and leaves them there.

    ECONOMIST: Spaceflight

  • "The Wind and The Light" describes a villager stumbling upon a badly beaten man who turns out to be his dead sibling.

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  • Yesterday you heard him talk about an entirely different substantive policy issue and high light it -- the wind energy tax credit that supports 75, 000 -- 37, 000 jobs and an industry that has 75, 000 jobs across the country, and that -- let me just restate that.

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  • In November, WinFlex, a wind-power company based in Kiryat Yam, Israel, received one of the most coveted prizes in the GE Ecomagination Challenge for developing a wind-turbine system that uses a light, flexible cloth sheets made out of composite materials as the rotor system for a wind turbine.

    FORBES: Inflatable Wind Turbines Pass Laugh Test

  • But psyllids are light and can travel on the wind, so they could simply have been blown there.

    ECONOMIST: Plant disease

  • The number was arbitrary, but the mood was beginning to bear down, not the cold or the wind but the missing light, the missing man.

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  • Light-based communication seems to wind throughout the MIT Media Lab -- it is a universal language, after all, since many devices output light, be it with a dedicated LED or a standard LCD, and have the capacity to view and interpret it.

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  • For these organisms, getting down from a cloud may be more of an ordeal than getting up: spore-releasing fungi tend to shed spores at the times of day and year when thermals are most likely, and bacteria are so small and light that the slightest puff of wind can send them flying.

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  • This intimate story, bringing together the northern light reflected off water, the cold wind, the fear of poverty, the weight of the past, and the lack of a future, has a soulful, epic grandeur.

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  • Mendel showed many pleated frocks in light and airy fabrications that move with the wind much like the wisteria flowers that inspired his collection.

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  • If all 15 wind farms are given the green light by Powys County Council and the Welsh government - and the large schemes over 50 megawatts by the UK government - hundreds of new turbines would join those already installed on the hills.

    BBC: Mid Wales

  • For the purposes of floating wind farms, such turbines are not light enough, they are too tall and the rotor blades are too small, according to Mr Bratland's early assessments, made even before the 2.3 megawatt turbine has started delivering electricity through the sea-bed cable that connects it to the Norwegian national grid.

    BBC: Floating challenge for offshore wind turbine

  • Too many U.S. manufacturing jobs have moved offshore including jobs making solar panels, wind turbines, energy-efficient appliances and light bulbs.

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  • The ship departed the wind-blasted town of Puerto Natales at first light, with passengers boarding the night before.

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  • It reappeared shortly afterward, on the opposite side of the city, popping out from behind a cloud, bathing Harlem and the East River in a chalky light, and, as though caught by a gust of wind, it rolled toward the Bronx.

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  • Using electricity generated by the wind, "Delmarva Power will be able to light about 50, 000 homes a year, every year" for the duration of the 25-year contract, Lanard said, with first power expected by 2012.

    CNN: Wind farm to be built off Delaware shore

  • Through a sidelight at the rear door he watched the flames race in the wind, flowing under his car and fanning out to light the corncrib, the smokehouse, and the big sagging barn, which went up in a howl of crackling lumber and dried-out hay.

    NEWYORKER: Idols

  • Somebody is going to build wind towers and wind turbines and create the power that's going to light our homes and heat our homes and cool our homes for decades to come.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Those characteristics can include a brief dip in air pressure, a change in wind direction, a change in wind speed, a rise in air temperature or a dip in ultraviolet light reaching the rover.

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  • Those afternoons the light died quickly and we talked nearly non-stop, race-walking into the wind.

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  • "When you get down around a house, or in and amongst a lot of trees, or around buildings, the wind resource is seriously compromised, " said Mick Sagrillo, founder of Sagrillo Power and Light, a renewable energy consultancy firm.

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