Wind refers to any flow of air relative to the earth's surface in a roughly horizontal direction. Breezes that blow back and forth from a body of water to adjacent land areas—on-shore and off-shore breezes, or land and sea...

A little wind kindles a fire, too much will put it out. (English) A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall. (English) As the wind, so the sail. (French) Be in readiness for favorable winds. (Chinese) Every wind does not shake down the...

Wind is the flow of air. More generally, it is the flow of the gases which compose an atmosphere; since wind is not unique to Earth.[1] Winds are commonly classified by their spatial scale, their speed, the types of forces that cause them, the...

INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL Manitoba, which is part of the vast North American prairie, is prime real estate for wind. So an independent power provider, Algonquin Power, is building windmills to generate electricity at St. Leon, in the southern part of the province. If...

Wind, waves shrink Florida beaches By KEN THOMAS Associated Press Saturday, November 10, 2001 Hollywood, Fla. -- Weeks of wind and pounding surf have chewed away at Florida's world-famous beaches in some of the worst erosion in a generation, leaving...

Energy Policy: The Senate may vote this month to require that 15% of domestic energy production come from alternative sources by 2020. Welcome to the People's Republic of America.The Senate Energy Committee has sent to the full Senate legislation effectively nationalizing the energy sector of...

Crews hoping for wet weather to help combat lightning-sparked wildfires in California faced a new threat Wednesday: too much rain.Flash flood warnings were posted for much of the eastern Sierra Nevada on Wednesday as the National Weather Service predicted a 40 percent chance of rain...