In the center of the ocean, wind-driven currents bring fresh water to the surface, so stirring the ocean could transform it into a well-organized storage depot.
Wind-driven swells slapped over the tops of breakwaters and turned waves into a churning froth under piers at points such as Redondo Beach and Manhattan Beach on the Los Angeles County coast.
The Swedish government is funding research into the feasibility of using a wind-turbine driven oxygen pump in the Baltic, following studies carried out last year by the University of Gothenburg, which looked at the effect of pumping oxygen-rich surface water to the bottom of two Swedish fjords.
The electricity generators operate like wind turbines but with blades driven by tidal wave action.
In the open-wheel race cars I had driven previously, wind buffets your helmet violently, and the noise is deafening--nothing relaxing about it.
With the real possibility that the policy-driven demand for wind turbines would dry up in any given year, companies were understandably wary of investing in large manufacturing facilities in the United States.
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There's also a handful of elements that we seldom see in these apps, such as a direction-relative wind indicator, optional motion-driven navigation and visual themes.
One of the ironies of the power crisis is that, instead of profiting from increased prices, small generators that use renewable sources of energy such as the wind and the sun have been driven almost to collapse by the failure of the utilities to pay them.
Credit Suisse and UBS published reports recently highlighting that fiscally-fit Germany and its industrial export-driven companies are likely to wind up winners amid the turmoil in Europe.
In the ocean, most of the movement of heat and salt, the real Thermohaline Circulation, is driven directly and indirectly by the wind field.
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Renewables such as solar and wind have boomed in 2011 and 2012, perhaps driven by government spending.
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Each of the first 3, 000 will be driven 40 kilometers to check for rattles, wind noise and other problems.
State mandates for renewable energy generation have driven much of the increase in solar, wind, geothermal, biomass and other forms of clean power over the past decade.
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Energy has driven the world for over a thousand years Wind, Hydro and Solar are the oldest forms of energy giving power to all smart enough to use it.
Another part of the picture is the large number of women now in the global workforce: fully half, driven by better education and aided by the steady wind of social forces.
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Revenue growth has been driven in recent quarters by ultracapacitor sales for hybrid buses and wind turbines, mostly in China.
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In their bid to simplify loading 35mm film, Kodak, Fuji and other photographic firms squared off the 35mm roll's lead-in tab so a modern SLR's motor-driven loading mechanism could grab the film's sprocket holes and wind it automatically onto the take-up spool.
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