CONTENTS: Wind Harvest: Prospects & Problems; Wind Power; Whose Wind? : Prospects for Cooperative & Community Wind Development on the US Upper Great Plains; Wind Energy: Issues to Consider; Wind Power Today; Whither Wind? ; Wind Energy: A Promising Future; A Review of NDT Techniques for Wind Turbines; Offshore Wind Power on the Horizon: A New Energy Frontier for Oceans, People & Wildlife; Wind Farm Development & Operation: A Case Study; Impact of Trade Wind Offshore Wind Power Capacity Scenarios on Power Flows in the European HV Network; Support for Wind Resource Assessment & Wind Farm Development in China; Institutional Factors & Knowledge Co- Evolution for Developing the Wind Energy Industry in India; Wind Energy in India: The Future & the Challenge; Research & Assessment of Wind Turbine's Noise in Vydmantai; Wind Resources.
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