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And it's about to go online in the North Sea.
But rather than fight reality, the seaside resort town of Skegness has long aimed to exploit it.
He's a wind farm engineer who recognizes the beauty in the incessant 15-knot wind that blows off the North Sea.
Strung across the water in long rows, the towers will be linked by an undersea cable that will send the electricity they produce to an onshore substation, then to about 150, 000 homes near England's eastern seaboard.
Spurred by concerns over climate change and the United Nations Kyoto Protocol agreements to reduce fossil fuel emissions, the European Commission has called upon the nations of the European Union to increase their use of renewables.
Offshore wind farms are expected to supply a significant part of the increase, thanks largely to technological advances that have finally made the sea-based systems economically feasible.
For its part, the UK's Department of Trade and Industry has promoted a plan to install 6, 000 or more high-output turbines off Britain's shore; if clustered together, they would fill an area of seabed roughly the size of London.
Devoid of obstacles to block or slow it, the North Sea region's wind energy is about 50 percent greater offshore than on land, according to the European Wind Energy Association.


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Residential living in downtown Milwaukee is taking a leap into a new era as the city anticipates the completion of three new developments that promise to change the landscape in more than one way.
"The demographics are such that people who have homes in the Milwaukee area that are selling for a comparable amount are looking to make this change, " says University Club Tower managing partner Barry Mandel, whose partners include Peter Mahler, Blaine Rieke and Chris Smocke.
"The towers are definitely a sea change in the landscape, " Dicker says.

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if:book: the sea change is coming...
When the clunky dot-matrix gave way to the high-quality laser printer, desk top publishing was born and an entire industry changed form almost overnight.
'The book, Pemberton contends, will experience a similar sea-change the moment screen technology improves enough to compete with the printed page.'.
But anyway, in my humble opinion the sea change is coming.
I agree that the mainstream application of these technologies, along with ever thinner, lighter, and brighter screen technologies will change the way we read- and probably the way we see.
however, i think there will indeed be a mini-sea change in terms of people's willingness to read on electronic screens — once the displays are good enough.
The needed realization is that the print book can easily exceed the legibility (immediacy of communication), haptic assimilation and persistence of screen based book and the print book will advance into a much wider influence based on digital production and the bibliographic utility function of screen based searching.
(I happen to be at the American Library Association meetings in Seattle where just such interplay is being evaluated.).
Jeff Han's demo of the multitouch screen illustrates a wonderfully immersive interface that could change the way networked 'books' will be experienced..

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