It was like the wind had been let out of my sail.
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"They're like the wind beneath our t------, " Ms. Behar said.
These are one of the few ways (but not the only way, see article) that energy from transient sources like the wind can be stored in grid-filling quantities.
And the President has been focusing his time talking about the contrast, the difference he has with Mitt Romney on issues like the wind tax credit, on Medicare, on middle-class tax cuts.
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The proud studio that once put out films like Gone With the Wind and Doctor Zhivago has been reduced to middling hits like Hot Tub Time Machine and outright failures like the recent Fame remake.
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WEAs are areas being considered by state-federal government offshore wind task forces and large public-private wind power consortiums like the Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium.
Of course at the same time there are a bunch of other utilities, like AEP, along with independent power producers like NRG Energy and renewable advocates like the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), who want badly to get the grid up and running.
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Mr. MIKE MURPHY (Republican Political Consultant): I think the least important thing now, are polls, and I think the advice I give everybody is don't really believe any polls - national polls - until after the Iowa caucus - because people aren't paying attention now so the polls move around like leaves in the wind.
At Piper Alpha, where 167 men had died, huge pieces of debris had to be moved from the wellhead by cranes tossing like flotsam amid the wind and the waves.
The storied studio that produced classics like Gone With the Wind and 2001 is up for sale.
In the '30s and '40s, voters routinely rewarded crowd-pleasers like Gone With the Wind and the Bing Crosby musical Going My Way.
In response the Obama administration may approve more projects like Cape Wind, the controversial offshore wind energy project in Massachusetts.
All are devoted to illustrating the thermodynamic flux in the hybrid system, wavering like a candle in the wind.
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However, given the rapid increase in demand for natural resources from countries like China and other BRICS countries, they have become the new targets of resource extraction and could wind up like the Hotspots within a few decades.
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Then there are the renewable portfolio standards, which mandate that a third of the state's energy come from renewable sources like wind and the sun by 2020.
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Like Bach's original, Muse is in three movements, with the brief, middle one flitting by like a leaf on the wind.
Otherwise, they will shoot at us, they'll engage us, they'll conduct attacks and then they'll vanish like vapors in the wind.
Self-described environmentalists, the Stordalens like the fact that the Falcon moves under wind power 70 percent of the time.
There's little forward protection apart from a little flycatcher 'screen, and yet the cabin is wide enough to scooch down into and hide from the wind blast that feels like the waft from a freshly opened stove.
And what we know is that the policy the President has pursued has led already to the doubling of production of renewable energy from sources like wind and solar since the President took office.
But I also believe that we've got to look at the energy sources of the future like wind and solar and biofuels, and make those investments.
Recently, a flock of plastic bags has caught in the spindly sycamore in front of their apartment, empty bags that inflate and deflate with the wind like marooned sailing ships.
This sounds like a sports car, and with the wind in your hair, it feels like one, too.
Like China, the prodigious expansion of power production from renewable-energy resources like wind, solar energy and geothermal has outpaced the ability of the transmission systems to move these new power supplies to centers of demand.
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And I heard an interesting comment the other week from someone connected with grid issues - that the engineers like to have a bit of wind power in the mix because wind turbines are the easiest thing by far to switch on and off.
Costs for coal are highly dependent on the cost of gasoline, and the costs for wind are highly dependent on material costs like steel and concrete as wind requires about 10 times the amount of steel, concrete and copper per kWhr than any other energy source.
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The larger your energy network, the better you can deal with the fundamental problems of cyclical power like solar and intermittent sources like wind, by pooling available energy and getting it to the users when needed.
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The roof of the Louvre's new Islamic art department undulates like golden fabric gently lifted by the wind a feat, considering it is made of steel and glass and weighs almost 150 tons.
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When the wind from the west meets the wind from the east, the sand is pushed upward like the ocean waves the dunes resemble.
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