Sentence examples for downwind from inspiring English sources

The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), an agency with near Olympian powers which ran the nuclear programme, selected a government-owned bombing and gunnery range in Nevada partly because winds would blow "radiological hazards" away from Las Vegas and Los Angeles towards "virtually uninhabitable" land downwind to the west, home to ranches and Mormon communities.

The outside looked like a pub, anyway – Shenanigans it was called, a dilapidated sort of an establishment just downwind of Lionel Richie.

The upshot is that the EPA must tell states the exact proportion that each contributes to downwind pollution.

The agency argues that emissions move in complicated channels; polluters can send different quantities to multiple downwind areas.

States can even be upwind for some emissions and downwind for others.

According to Shigeo Yoshida, who is in charge of research for the project, that makes the arrangement 5-8% more efficient in such circumstances than an upwind turbine would be.As a bonus, the downwind design is less temperamental in high winds.

And anyone who has sat downwind from chain smokers in a sports stadium knows it to be a source of outdoor air pollution as well.

He explains that, for safety, icebergs should be passed on the windward side, as downwind of them will be dangerous, fast-moving pieces of ice "like floating rocks".

When they were created by fire-fountains of lava punching high into the air, the pummicey fallout fell predominantly downwind, providing the long lee sides.

Much more speculatively, the plants at the peak may in some way make the clouds downwind more pluvious.

IT CAN even be seen from space and smelt 240 miles (390km) downwind on the ground.