Word: wilhelmshaven
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...Sept. 4, 1939, 29 British planes set out to bomb battleships in the German port of Wilhelmshaven. The weather wasn't very good. Some of them bombed Wilhelmshaven, but some of them got lost and unloaded on Esbjerg instead, where there weren't any battleships and which, more to the point, is in Denmark. A woman was killed while making dinner...
...With the construction of offshore wind plants, Germany can contribute greatly to climate protection." The Germans already generate 2.5% of their electricity from wind energy, sparing the atmosphere 4.8 million tons of CO2 a year. A study carried out by Greenpeace and the German Institute for Wind Energy in Wilhelmshaven found that CO2 reductions could reach 12 million tons a year by 2005 if offshore wind plants were used. In all, some 21 million tons could be saved if the countries bordering the North Sea meet their wind energy targets...