PARIS, France -- Frankie Dettori became the first jockey to win the Epsom Derby, French Derby and French Oaks in the same year as he partnered West Wind to an emphatic victory at Chantilly.
When the wind from the west meets the wind from the east, the sand is pushed upward like the ocean waves the dunes resemble.
For some races, the combination of water flowing west and wind blowing east creates a series of choppy five-foot waves.
To really see the impact of regional airlines these days, just fly the longest flight in miles on a regional jet in the U.S. That's a 1, 501-mile United flight between Austin, Texas and San Francisco, which takes about four hours going west into the wind.
It forces competitors to sail west, against the wind and currents.
It won a contract with AES Energy to outfit a 32-megawatt energy storage project for a wind farm in West Virginia.
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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 study used satellite data to show that the building of huge wind farms in west Texas over the last decade has warmed the nights by up to 0.72C.
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.
With the existing wind capacity, there have already been times in recent years when surpluses have been generated and Denmark has actually paid other countries to take the excess power supply (much like the situation in West Texas, where surpluses of wind occasionally result in negative pricing for short periods).
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The company says that its Texas power lines are well situated to carry cheap juice from the many wind farms springing up across west Texas.
Morris says he favors new renewable sources, but the "Achilles' heel" for solar and wind is the fact that the sun shines brighter and the wind blows harder in the West and Great Plains.
If the wind changes and pushes the slick west towards Texas's beaches, that might be manageable.
Then the wind industry started to take hold in west Texas and the panhandle.
Two wind farms can now go ahead in West Norfolk after a High Court judge backed a government inspector's approval.
The Chiplow and Jack's Lane wind farm plans were originally thrown out by West Norfolk borough council in 2011.
The wind is currently coming from the north-west, pushing the slick towards the mouth of the gulf and away from danger.
Now it is time to make a choice: you could catch a cab south to TriBeCa and finish the night in a grown-up fashion or continue on to the West Village and Meatpacking District in search of your second wind.
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Wind was a major issue in some places, with wind chill warnings and advisories in effect from North Dakota to West Virginia and on into parts of New England.
The wind farm plans for Bagthorpe and Stanhoe were originally thrown out by West Norfolk Borough Council in 2011 but later approved by the inspector.
Today, he says that 29 utility scale solar, wind and geothermal projects have been approved to go on federal lands out west, all of which would provide 6, 500 megawatts of electricity.
The proposed wind farm would be located off the Dorset and Hampshire coast and to the west of the Isle of Wight.
Residents in west Norfolk have called on the High Court to reject the government's approval of two wind farms.
They turned down the application by ABO Wind UK Ltd to site eight turbines, each 125m high, on land north west of the village of Roberton.
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TenneT, which operates the grid in Schleswig-Holstein, wants to extend the wind park idea to the transmission network, offering stakes in a line along the west coast.
Its chairman William Powell, a Liberal Democrat Mid and West Wales AM, said there was an "overwhelming number of responses" from people affected by wind turbines.
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