When the wind from the west meets the wind from the east, the sand is pushed upward like the ocean waves the dunes resemble.
"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.
It is, but the amount of work pales to almost insignificance when compared to the alternative: rushing around like the Wicked Witch of the East, scattering signals to the wind, and wondering why houses keep dropping onto our heads.
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The largest wind farm east of the Mississippi is atop the Tug Hill Plateau, north of Syracuse, New York.
The Dakotas, frozen thick for weeks, sent an ice wind east for the occasion, but it thawed a bit by Monday.
Among the numbers performed by the singer was a follow up to his song, The Wind, from his Cat Stevens days, called Wind East And West.
The wind typically blows east at more than 25 knots, or 29 miles per hour.
Now, according to popular wisdom, the biggest threat to the robust health of these economies is the cold wind blowing from East Asia.
Other stories hunted down by Ms Willmore include East Wind and The Limpit which only appeared in America and The Happy Valley which was published in a magazine in 1932.
The Atlantic Wind Connection would take place over at least 10 years and would have the potential of delivering 7, 000 megawatts of wind energy to states along the East Coast, some of which have set renewable portfolio standards.
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All of which leads us to contemplate the future of wind in the United States, particularly on the east coast.
Companies like Google are planning to invest billions in deepwater transmission networks to accomodate offshore wind farms off the East Coast.
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It used to be, five years ago when we tried to talk about wind power along the East Coast, there was Delaware and no one else was doing it.
In "the East" there is that age-old instinct for reading the wind and riding with the victor.
The provinces of Navarra and Rioja in the north-east of Spain now rely on wind farms for 50% of their electricity.
Meanwhile, GNER was forced to cancel all services between Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh and the north east of England, Yorkshire and London's King's Cross after the wind and snow brought down overhead lines in the Borders.
But the first waves of marine wind farms are being built in shallower water, nearer consumers, to the east of England and in the Irish Sea.
The 115ft (35m) wind turbine collapsed at East Ash Farm, near Holsworthy, early on Sunday.
For some races, the combination of water flowing west and wind blowing east creates a series of choppy five-foot waves.
As he leaves Israel twisting in the wind, he has sent his chief Middle East Peace Processors Dennis Ross and David Hale to Israel to threaten Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu into caving to US-Palestinian demands and beg PA leader Mahmoud Abbas to accept an Israeli surrender and cancel his plans to have the UN General Assembly upgrade the PLO's mission to the UN.
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North Carolina boasts more offshore wind power potential than any other state on the East Coast, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
While Sandy visited devastation on the East Coast, principally New Jersey and New York, it created wind gusts as far west as Wisconsin and as far north as Canada and caused water levels to rise from Florida to Maine, the center found.
Elsewhere in the UK, high winds are expected to cause disruption, with wind speeds of 42mph recorded at Heathrow, 63mph on the east coast of Northern Ireland, 49mph in Crosby, Merseyside, and 46mph in Birmingham.
The Rhiannon wind farm would be around 19km (12 miles) north-east of Anglesey and cover an area the size of the Isle of Man.
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.
Wheat Stem Rust is a devastating wind-born disease affecting cereals that has spread across Africa and is now in the Middle East, and migrating further eastwards.
As in years past, the houses wind down with sales of Old Master paintings and antiquities from Europe, Africa, and the Near East.
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