Players were averaging about 350 yards off the tee on the first hole, with the trade wind at their backs.
But fortunately for AWEA, it's not a tough time to be a trade association touting the virtues of wind power.
But as soon as people in the market get wind that a big trade is under way, they adjust their prices to take advantage of it.
Indeed, many millennia from now when wind turbines are finally able to stand on their own without major taxpayer subsidies, American producers will be able to trade the fruits of their labor for wind turbines manufactured in other countries.
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Gregory Wetstone has overseen government affairs for the American Wind Energy Association, a Washington trade group, for a year.
Today U.S. manufacturers filed a complaint with the Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission accusing China and Vietnam of selling wind towers so cheaply here they are hampering domestic industry.
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Another straw in the wind is the difficult progress of some regional trade agreements.
The car began to wind its way through the narrow streets near the 1 World Trade Center construction, toward the Trinity Boxing Club, where Cotto would be training that afternoon.
They are a pretty basic technology, they are a one hit, while if we develop lagoons, if we develop other forms of tidal and wave and other ways of extracting the energy from the water and the wind then I think we've got a great potential export trade.
The wind industry is on track to power one in 10 homes by 2015, according to the trade body for UK renewable energy firms.
Renewables such as windmills promote trade and market integration by prodding governments to link up national grids, says Peter Brun of the Danish wind-energy firm, Vestas.
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