Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alto-cumulus clouds begin to cast shadows across the truck stops and red-dirt farm lands of western Oklahoma. Moore and his aide, Bill Moyer, another O.U. meteorology student, keep peering at the sky, noting the cloud peaks tilting to the southeast, indicating that jet-stream winds are active. "That's good," Moore notes, "real good." Two essential ingredients for a tornadic storm seem to be present, and just as surely moving inexorably toward a showdown. If the cold, swift-moving jet-stream wind persists and clashes with the warm, moist lower air from the south, the atmosphere will...
Seconds later, Moore lowers his camera and looks in horror as, 100 yds. away, the tan blur of a 100-m.p.h. tornado wind crosses the road on which the truck is parked. That wind could easily send it rolling end over end like a kid's toy. Moore dashes into the cab, Moyer on his heels. "Get in!" he screams. "That son of a bitch is coming right at us! Now! Let's go!" He jams the truck into gear, and we race north. Behind, hardly the length of a football field away, the ground beneath the tornado...
...whole engine-and-pylon assembly might have to be redesigned and manufactured with strengthened chrome steel, Duralumin and stainless steel fittings. These would be tested in wind tunnels, simulators and actual flights. The process could take weeks or months-or longer...
...Wind. Don Quixote's nemesis could supply perhaps 2% of the nation's electric power by 1990. Modern windmills, which turn electric generators rather than grind grain, do not look anything like the revolving sails that dot Holland's countryside...
Sandia Labs is experimenting in Albuquerque with a vertical-axis wind-turbine design that looks like a weird eggbeater. Like all windmills, it suffers commercially from having intermittent power output, but the small estimated cost of no more than 50 per kw-h can make it an attractive alternative, especially in inaccessible and rural areas, where power is costly...