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Wind Mobility
Wind Mobility was a Berlin and Barcelona based micromobility startup, founded in 2017, that rented dockless e-scooters in over 20 cities before its German entity entered liquidation in 2025.
Wind of Change (Scorpions song)
Wind of Change is a 1990 power ballad by German band Scorpions, written by Klaus Meine after the 1989 Moscow Music Peace Festival; whistled intro, January 1991 single, No. 4 US, later lyric changes for Ukraine.
Wind of Change (upcoming film)
Wind of Change is an upcoming 2027 biopic of German rock band Scorpions, directed by Alex Ranarivelo, starring Ludwig Trepte, Alexander Dreymon, Ed Speleers, and Dominic West, releasing January 28, 2027 in Germany; distinct from the 1961 British drama and 2023 Iranian film of the same name.
Wind power
Wind power, also called wind energy, converts the kinetic energy of moving air into electricity, most commonly with wind turbines, supplying 8% of global electricity in 2024.
Wind power density
Wind power density (WPD) is the wind energy available per unit area at a site, measured in watts per square meter, and indicates what a wind turbine there could produce.
Wind power forecasting
Wind power forecasting is the set of physical, statistical, and machine-learning methods that predict future wind power generation, at horizons from minutes up to several days ahead.
Wind power in Brazil
Wind power in Brazil is the generation of electricity from wind, which grew from one small turbine in 1992 to over 33 GW, the country's second largest electricity source.
Wind power in China
Wind power in China is the deployment of wind turbines for electricity, giving China the world's largest installed wind capacity, about 521 GW at the end of 2024.
Wind power in Denmark
Wind power in Denmark generated 54 percent of the country's electricity in 2024, the highest wind share in the IEA; Denmark installed the world's first offshore wind farm in 1991.
Wind power in Germany
Wind power in Germany is the generation of electricity from onshore and offshore wind turbines, the country's largest renewable source, with 68.1 GW onshore at the end of 2025.
Wind power in India
Wind power in India, also called wind energy in India, generates electricity from onshore and offshore turbines, with 57,443 MW installed as of 2026, fourth highest globally.
Wind power in Spain
Wind power in Spain is a principal source of electricity, with 33,274 MW installed and a 21.6% generation share in 2025, second in Europe and fifth worldwide in capacity.
Wind power in Texas
Wind power in Texas is the generation of electricity from wind turbines in the state that leads the nation, accounting for 28 percent of US wind generation in 2024.
Wind power in the United Kingdom
Wind power in the United Kingdom is the generation of electricity from onshore and offshore wind turbines, the country's largest source of clean electricity, supplying a record 29.2% in 2024.
Wind power in the United States
Wind power in the United States is the generation of electricity from wind turbines, the largest renewable source, providing about 11% of US electricity in 2025.
Wind pump
Wind pump (windpump): a wind-driven water-lifting machine, usually a multibladed steel rotor on a tower driving a piston pump in a well below; used to dewater the Netherlands from the 13th century, mass-produced in the United States from the 1860s, with over one million still in use.
Wind resource assessment
Wind resource assessment is the process of measuring and analyzing wind conditions at a candidate site to estimate the energy wind turbines would produce, guiding siting, design, and financing.
Wind River (film)
Wind River is a 2017 American crime thriller written and directed by Taylor Sheridan, about a wildlife officer and FBI agent investigating a Native American woman's death on a Wyoming reservation.
Wind River Indian Reservation
Wind River Indian Reservation: Wyoming's only reservation, about 2.2 million acres near Lander, shared by the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes under the 1868 Fort Bridger Treaty, with the Arapaho placed there in 1878.
Wind rose
A wind rose is a diagram showing the frequency and strength of the wind from various directions, used in runway design, air-quality modeling, and wind-energy planning.
Wind Rose (band)
Wind Rose: Italian power metal band from Pisa, formed 2009 (earlier Power Rose), known as the "dwarf metal" band whose 2019 cover of Yogscast's "Diggy Diggy Hole" went viral on Napalm Records.
Wind sea
Wind sea, also written wind waves, is the portion of the ocean wave spectrum generated and directly driven by local wind, unlike swell, which travels from distant storms.
Wind shear
Wind shear is a sudden change in wind speed and direction over a short distance, a major aviation hazard that is most dangerous near the ground on approach.
Wind speed
Wind speed, or speed of wind, is the rate at which air moves past a fixed point, measured with an anemometer and driven by the pressure gradient.
Wind Surfing Deinze
Windsurfing Deinze vzw (WSD) is a windsurf and SUP club in Deinze, East Flanders, Belgium, on a former sand pit (Surfput Florizoone) up to 6 m deep; it offers certified lessons, youth training, camps, rental, and pump foiling, with swimming forbidden.
Wind Tre
Wind Tre S.p.A. is an Italian telecommunications operator formed in 2016 from the merger of Wind and H3G, wholly owned by CK Hutchison since 2018.
Wind tunnel
A wind tunnel is a laboratory device that moves air past a stationary model to measure lift and drag, used to test scale models of aircraft and automobiles.
Wind turbine
A wind turbine, also called an aerogenerator, is a machine that converts the energy of moving air into electricity with rotor blades that spin a generator atop a tower.
Wind turbine blade
A wind turbine blade is the long, twisted airfoil surface that converts moving air into rotor rotation; commercial turbines use three blades upwind of the tower.
Wind turbine blade recycling
Wind turbine blade recycling is the recovery or reuse of materials from retired blades, whose thermoset composites resist separation; cement co-processing is the dominant route.