The resulting modifications were intended to enable the building to withstand gale-force winds.
The ability of dragonfly wings to withstand gale-force winds is being copied to create turbines that can so the same.
The turbine was initially thought to have been brought down by the wind despite being designed to withstand gales of up to 116 m.p.h.
Boundaries will need to be more robust to withstand gales – that means fewer wooden fencing panels and more walls and railings.
Chris Tomlinson, E.ON's development manager on the project, said wind turbines generate electricity 85% of the time and can withstand gale-force winds.
Later, as the wind rises, it is touch-and-go whether the dish can withstand the gale.
New shoots stimulated too late in the summer (by generous watering, for example) can fail to ripen before the autumn frosts or be too weak and sappy to withstand a gale.
So ran at least one of the many hair-splitting strains of mesmerized chatter this week among women, especially current and former wives in the New York area, as they watched yet another pale, drawn woman standing by her husband's side, trying to withstand the gale force winds of his sex scandal.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes Letter To A Young Activist During Troubled Times Know that you are indeed, a "great ship," built to withstand the gales that test your endurance.
To be sure the barges would, as we have said, probably have withstood the gale, had they been well found; but a master is not justified in putting his tow to every test which she will survive, if she be fit.
