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    NASA WorldWind is an open-source (released under the NOSA license and the Apache 2.0 license) virtual globe. According to the website (https://worldwind...
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    A wind farm or wind park, also called a wind power station or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity...
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    Wind power is the use of wind energy to generate useful work. Historically, wind power was used by sails, windmills and windpumps, but today it is mostly...
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    Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface. Winds occur on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens...
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    installed wind power capacity in the world. Wind power capacity is mainly spread across the southern, western, and northwestern states. Wind power costs...
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    A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. As of 2020[update], hundreds of thousands of large turbines...
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  • original on December 19, 2009. Retrieved July 19, 2010. "Pocket Digimon World: Wind Battle Disc". GameFAQs. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012...
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    northwesterly wind that blows from southern France into the Gulf of Lion in the northern Mediterranean. It produces sustained winds often exceeding...
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  • The World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) is an international non-profit association representing the wind power sector worldwide, with members in 100...
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  • international market. In 2018, GE was the fourth largest wind turbine manufacturer in the world. The entity was created as developer (not manufacturer)...
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    Offshore wind power or offshore wind energy is the generation of electricity through wind farms in bodies of water, usually at sea. There are higher wind speeds...
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  • Engineering (India) Inox Wind (India) RRB Energy Limited (India) Suzlon (India) World Wind (India) Enercon (Germany) Nordex SE (Germany) UNISON (South Korea) Hanjin...
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    Wind power has been used as long as humans have put sails into the wind. Wind-powered machines used to grind grain and pump water — the windmill and wind...
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    Global Wind Day or World Wind Day is a worldwide event that is held on June 15. It is organised by WindEurope and GWEC (Global Wind Energy Council). It...
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    over 40% of the world's capacity by 2022. Wind power is used on a commercial basis in more than half of all the countries of the world. Denmark produced...
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    Weather vane (redirect from Wind vane)
    direction from which the wind is blowing. Wind vanes are also found on small wind turbines to keep the wind turbine pointing into the wind. The oldest textual...
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  • used by the Empire of Japan during World War II. The film was adapted from Miyazaki's manga of the same name. The Wind Rises was the highest-grossing Japanese...
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    China is the world leader in wind power generation, with the largest installed capacity of any nation and continued rapid growth in new wind facilities...
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    unit for velocity and the unit recommended by the World Meteorological Organization for reporting wind speeds, and is amongst others used in weather forecasts...
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    for wind power in Europe and one of the best in the world. The combination of long coastline, shallow water and strong winds make offshore wind unusually...
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    industry lobbying groups like Eurosolar, the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE) and the World Wind Energy Association have promoted IRENA since...
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    Windmill (redirect from Wind mill)
    English-speaking world the term has also been extended to encompass windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications. The term wind engine is also sometimes...
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    become a standard for global raster datasets, such as Celestia, NASA World Wind, the USGS Astrogeology Research Program, and Natural Earth, because of...
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  • Michael Balcon, released through Ealing Studios in 1948. Against the Wind is a World War II sabotage/resistance drama set in occupied Belgium, starring...
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    Earth, Wind & Fire (EW&F or EWF) is an American band whose music spans the genres of jazz, R&B, soul, funk, disco, pop, Latin, and Afro-pop. They are among...
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    operational floating wind farms, at a combined 193 MW.[citation needed] The Hywind Tampen floating offshore wind farm, recognized as the world's largest, began...
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    Small wind turbines, also known as micro wind turbines or urban wind turbines, are wind turbines that generate electricity for small-scale use. These...
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    Archived 2011-04-07 at the Wayback Machine (PDF). "World Wind Energy Report 2010" (PDF). Report. World Wind Energy Association. February 2011. Archived from...
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    portal Jackup rig List of largest wind farms in the world Lists of wind farms Wind power by country "Hornsea 2, the world's largest windfarm, enters full...
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    average value of wind speed is generally measured over a period of 2 minutes before the meteorological observation according to the World Meteorological...
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