Word: winded
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...Bush's determination to take action to protect the U.S. from enemies who are certainly not ambivalent in their hatred of us. John Kerry's insistence that he had plans for everything, even though he couldn't explain any of them, just seemed like too much high-and-mighty wind without substance. Most people chose Bush's clearly expressed agenda instead of taking a chance on a Senator with a rather weak track record. Amy T. Bidwell Plain City...
...College-wide vote that begins today, undergraduates will decide whether the College should start to dump coal, oil, gas and nuclear fuel in favor of a clean source of energy: wind...
...from each of the College’s 6,559 undergraduates would pay for about 4 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of renewable energy—roughly 25 percent of the College dorms’ annual electricity consumption, or the total yearly production of one state-of-the-art wind turbine...
...issue is the College’s purchase of renewable energy certificates (RECs)—tradable units that represent the output of a wind farm somewhere in the country. If the referendum passes, most of Harvard’s actual electricity would still come from nuclear and fossil fuel power plants in New England, while the premium it would pay for the certificates would go to renewable energy sources in Texas, Colorado and Minnesota, among other states...
...You’re counterbalancing your own coal use with someone else’s use of wind,” explains Alexander L. Pasternack ’05, who helped organize the Harvard Students for Clean Energy group, which co-sponsored the referendum proposal together with...