So when he bought a second house nearby, he kept the name Maestrale (Italian for northwest wind) even though he would have preferred Kite Dancer in honor of his recent passion for kite-boarding.
Here in northwest Colorado, wind whips through sagebrush in this hot and dusty landscape, home to one of the ferret reintroduction sites.
At 2:45 in the Martian afternoon, the temperature was 5 degrees Fahrenheit, and there was a weak wind from the northwest.
The good news was that the wind was blowing from the northwest and sending the smoke from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant over the Pacific Ocean.
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I'm writing this blog from Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a cold katabatic wind is blowing off the ice onto the deck of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise.
My colleague William Pentland writes about another consequence of excess hydropower: wind farms in the Pacific Northwest are being forced to disconnect from the power grid out of concern their added electrons with overload the system.
One example he points to is the Bonneville Power Authority in the Pacific Northwest, which he said could increase the wind share of its generation portfolio from 20% to 40% within several years.
Grid operators in the Pacific Northwest have repeatedly pulled the plug on several large wind farms in Oregon and Washington State, collectively curtailing roughly 13 gigawatt hours (GWh) of wind power since last Wednesday.
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"It just so happens that the market is going crazy right now, so this is a perfect solution at a perfect time, " said Rachel Shimshak, director of the Renewable Northwest Project, which advocates for renewable energy such as wind, geothermal and solar.
Officials say the wind power will help fill gaps in the power exchange between the Pacific Northwest and energy-strapped California.
The wind turned small wildfires into big problems in some areas, including a blaze in Fillmore about 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles that burned two homes and forced the evacuation of 84 homes.
The mountains in the state's northwest region roll off the southern tip of the Rocky Mountains, and a maze of mountains and valleys funnel the wind into extreme speeds by the time they pass over ridge crests and mountain tops of the Guadalupe and Davis mountains.
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