This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. For centuries, farmers have used windmills to pump water, crush grain and perform other tasks. Today, farmers can earn money with high-powered wind turbines that produce electricity. Wind power has

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France Hopes to Get More Wind Energy from Its Coasts France recently launched its first floating wind turbine. The new turbine is called Floatgen. It is near the countrys western coast. Makers of the turbine say it is able to provide electricity for

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Based on the information in paragraph 3 and paragraph 4, what can be inferred about the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Texas mentioned at the end of paragraph 1? A.They rely largely on coal-fired power plants. B.They contain remote areas w

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. The history of science is inextricably linked to the Galapagos and its influence on Darwin. In 2001, an oil tanker hit a reef in the Galapagos Islands an

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Last month, President Obama pledged nearly half a billion dollars toward the development of solar and geothermal energies, but what about wind? A team of s

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Although the cyclone was category 4 the second highest level gusts of wind were 270km an hour at times. Both the wind and the rain caused damage. Many houses in Fiji are not strong and can easily be destroyed in a storm. Some houses blew away in the

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Britain Renewable energy in Scotland 英国 苏格兰的可再生能源之路 Caution to the wind 小心风力 How independence might threaten one of the SNPs favourite industries 独立是否会威胁苏格兰民族党的支柱产业之一 Twenty mi

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As High As A Kite I was sitting on the beach the other day watching a kite (In the shape of a two winged aircraft) flying high in the sky. It made wonderful acrobatic maneuvers as if piloted by a person with a lifetimes experience of flying. However

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mersky. Got a minute? You probably missed it because you were sleeping. But one of North America's great natural phenomenon happened over the nights of mid-spring. After sundown, the skies fill

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Renewable energy in the north-west 美国西北部的可再生能源 Tilting at windmills 风能发电遇到困难 Teething troubles in the clean-energy sector 清洁能源领域中的问题开始出现 Jun 16th 2011 | SEATTLE | from the print editio

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Europe Germany's energy transformation 欧洲 德国的能源转型 Energiewende 能源大变身 German plans to cut carbon emissions with renewable energy are ambitious, but they are also risky 德国计划通过可再生能源削减碳排放。雄伟

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The plan will require two transformations, one micro and one macro. The first is an unruly, subsidy-fed explosion of wind, solar and biomass power, a strange mixture of idealism and greed, as one energy boss calls it. The second is the effort to pull

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Renewables can depress wholesale prices, eg, when the sun creates a midday jolt. This discourages investors in the flexible, gas-powered generation needed to provide backup for windless, cloudy days. The market dynamics are completely destroyed, says

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This years Budget is a zero Budget. The Minister of Finance, Bill English, said there is no more money. To find money for new programmes, it has to come from present programmes. For example, to find money for more teacher training, it has to come fro

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The two municipalities and one province have launched a project to build wind, photovoltaic and power storage stations. Zhangjiakou, a city in Hebei province, boasts more than 6,000 hours of effective winds annually and 3,000 hours of sunshine annual

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Chinas wind farms have long had a cloud hanging over them: not enough of their clean energy is consumed. That seems odd; a combination of rapid urbanisation and thousands of coal-fired power stations makes for severe pollution problems, which the sta

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BEIJING, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Sources of clean energy generated 106.8 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in July, up 31 percent from a year ago, according to figures released by the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC) Tuesday. During the

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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- Google announced on Thursday that it is investing 75 million U.S. dollars in a wind farm in the Midwestern U.S. state of Iowa, making its total investment in clean energy projects to nearly 1 billion dollars. The Io

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在新托福考试中,很多考生最容易忽略的就是阅读,因为在跟各种英语考试的过招中,绝大部分人会感觉阅读是自己的强项。然而这种认知不一定准确。在青岛新东方的培训课程当中,发现不

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The power of the wind is at your command. The balance of power must be preserved. 风之化身听候您的差遣。力量的均衡必须维持。 图片1

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