Instead of placing our fingers in the air to determine which way the wind is blowing, we enlist the help of others to change the direction of the wind.
Investigation work is due to get under way at the site of the planned wind farm off the coast of Aberdeen which is opposed by Donald Trump.
The developers will also fund the employment of two countryside rangers for the "promotion, payment and management" of the Southern Upland Way over the 25 years the wind farm is operational.
As you get closer to the mountain you leave the main road and wind your way through a series of Kurdish villages many of which have borne witness to the persecution and struggle that the Kurdish people have endured over the past few decades.
Change takes work and creativity, much like how a roller coaster needs to climb up that first steep hill, but the reward is the thrill of the speed and the wind in your face on the way down.
KITEnergy takes advantage of the high altitude wind way up in the troposphere and converts it into electricity through tethered airfoils, these actually look like kites you would use in windsurfing.
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When the tough sail of real governing fails to catch wind the way a campaign slogan did in the year before, a politician stands humbled.
When the first questioner, a college student, expressed fears about finding a job after his graduation in 2014, Obama launched into a rambling response that improbably wound its way to the merits of wind power.
The possibility of fear is approaching, the way wind approaches a provincial capital.
The nominal opposition party, Islah, a conservative mishmash of Islamists and tribesmen, saw which way the wind was blowing and nominated Mr Saleh before his own party did.
Organised crime has suddenly ceased as the country's mafia bosses take stock of developments, and wait to see which way the political wind will blow.
The ability to successfully wind your way through the multitude of reefs and shoals to an excellent, yet admittedly imperfect, solution is a central skill of governments at their best and one that is becoming an increasingly needed attribute for top corporate leaders.
Washington had warmed up, the swift storm of the previous day had passed, the sky was overcast but the air wasn't painful in a wind-chill way, and the capital was full of men in cowboy hats and women in long furs.
As a board member, better to let the bushels of shareholder lawsuits challenging FWPP wind their way laboriously through the courts and let outsiders tend to the dirty-work.
But if a big gust of wind pushes the ship too far to the left, the solution is not to figure out a way to generate an equally-sized gust of wind to push the ship back in the other direction.
The Fleet continues to wind its way north, ending up at Hampstead Heath, the ponds of which were actually formed by a damming of the river in the 18th Century.
Get lost on the roads that wind their way up and down the hills of the Black Forest, where the summer sun filters through the canopy of trees to dapple the road in front of you.
Both solar and wind stand in the way of the torrent of history.
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So, the way UK officials tell it, this wasn't about an open-ended veto for the City, it was about preserving the single market in a number of specific areas, where the wind in Brussels has not been blowing our way.
"A researcher I was speaking to recently reckons green walls in urban canyon environments (areas where walls are higher than the width of the road separating them) are more effective than trees at collecting particles because the way the wind eddies around and then moves down the wall, " Laurence 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.
Corin Millais, chief executive of the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), says there has been a big change in the way the industry has developed during the past five years.
What I think that means is that this is -- some aspect of this is going to wind its way through the legal process as states move forward and as the judge explicitly let the states move forward on dealing with the law that Congress passed.
Although the cost of the energy produced this way will be higher, prices should decrease as wind farms become more established, National Wind Power promises.
But Microsoft knows which way the wind is blowing, and it's blowing in favor of customers.
Which is, of course, at least as hard as predicting which way the wind is going to blow.
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An exhibition is under way showing plans for a wind farm of almost 300 turbines off the Lincolnshire coast.
Arriving on May 19 at Land's End in the far southwest of England, it will then wind its way through 1, 019 communities, carried by 8, 000 torch-bearers.
Such tricky matters seem a long way off standing in bright sunshine on the summit of Halgurd, buffeted by the chill wind and tired from the climb.
Meanwhile, China could well be on its way to blowing the U.S. out of the water when it comes to harnessing wind energy.
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