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12 Sailor's shanty and clipper ship data from Dyson, Spirit of Sail, pp. 11, 17, 18, 21,23-24, 108, III.
13 Heatter, Eighty Days to Hong Kong, foreword.
14 Dyson, Spirit of Sail, pp. 14-21.
15 Winging It," The Economist, September 18, 2004.
16 Newton, Encyclopedia of Air, p 228.
17 Roger Hamilton, "Can We Harness the Wind?" National Geographic, December 1975, p. 812.
18 The power of the wind passing perpendicularly through a circular area is: P= 1/2 V3 r2, where P = the power of the wind measured in watts; v = the velocity of the wind measured in meters per second; r = the radius of the rotor measured in meters (from www.windpower.org).
19 Vaitheeswaran, Power to the People, p. 130.
20 Gipe, Wind Energy Comes of Age.
21 Martin Mittelstaedt, "Who Has Seen the Wind Power," Globe and Mail, January 4, 2003.
22 Alex Markels, "Prevailing Winds," Motherfones,July-August 2002, p. 38.
23 John Vidal, "Eye of the Storm," The Guardian, May 28, 2004.
24 Katharine Seelye, "Windmills Sow Dissent for Environmentalists," New York Times, June 5, 2003.
25 Vidal, The Guardian (see note 23, above).
26 Bill McKibben, "It's Easy Being Green," Mother fones, July-August 2002, p. 36.
27 This summary of the Nantucket debacle, and these quotes, are from a New York Times Magazine piece by Elinor Burkett. Elinor Burkett, "A Mighty Wind," June 15,2003.
28 American Wind Energy Association Web site, February 2001. www.awea.org.
29 Fiona Davies, "The Power of Water," Corporate Knights magazine, water issue, summer 2004.
30 Vaitheeswaran, Power to the People, p. 247.
31 Burkett, New York Times Magazine (see note 27, above).
EPILOGUE
Peter Bowyer interview, November 2004.
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