Category: Wind

From massive wind farms generating power to small turbines powering a single home, wind turbines around the globe generate clean electricity for a variety of power needs. In the United States, wind turbines are becoming a common sight. Since the turn of the century, total U.S. wind power capacity has increased more than 24-fold. Currently,…

Wind energy is the latest non-solar energy source, which is widely used. In many parts of the United States, the winds patterns and speeds vary because of the differences in terrain, vegetation, presence and size of water bodies (Aissaoui and Tahour 31). Wind power has many purposes in daily living, including electricity, kite flying, and…

The winds of Santa Ana, as explained by a well-respected author, Joan Didion, occur on a hill of a mountain and shift from cold air to a dry and humid wind as it travels down the mountains into Los Angeles. At the beginning of Didions story Los Angeles Notebook, she emphasizes that the Santa Ana…

This sonnet is written by Percy Bysshe Shelley. P.B. Shelley was amongst the main English Romantic poets. One of his best-known (familiar) works is ‘ Ode to the West Wind. ‘Additionally, the metaphors that are manipulated in this sonnet are clear examples of this fact. Metaphors in This Poem ‘O wild West Wind, thou breathe…