Sentences with phrase «older wind turbines»

Lowering prices, but at a cost Older wind turbines typically have not been equipped or designed to support voltage levels on power lines, a critical stability factor, and weren't required to provide that service.
I'd guess it isn't particularly claiming that a specific ten year old wind turbine, properly maintained will produce 0.

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According to temperature readings from one of the oldest wind farms in the U.S., near Palm Springs, Calif., the turbines make it warmer at night and cooler during the day, generally speaking.
Its wind farms are just 2.7 years old (on average), and wind turbines generally have an estimated 25 year + life.
Twenty - seven - year - old Maeve Brennan is based in London and Beirut, and uses her proposed work emphasizes the «whirring presence» of wind turbines, examining their ripple effects on the ecosystem.
As we speak, old factories are reopening to produce wind turbines, people are going back to work installing energy - efficient windows, and small businesses are making solar panels.
The Department of Health's Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dr Colette Bonner, has said that older people, people who suffer from migraine, and others with a sensitivity to low - frequency vibration, are some of those who can be at risk of «wind turbine syndrome».
In a bid to give a voice to the thousands of people who suffer in their health from the vicinity to wind turbines, the North American Platform Against Wind Power (NA - PAW) presents to the public twelve - year - old Jordynn Stom, whose already delicate health is being threatened by a wind farm projwind turbines, the North American Platform Against Wind Power (NA - PAW) presents to the public twelve - year - old Jordynn Stom, whose already delicate health is being threatened by a wind farm projWind Power (NA - PAW) presents to the public twelve - year - old Jordynn Stom, whose already delicate health is being threatened by a wind farm projwind farm project.
Ultra-green Denmark admits it has no idea what to with a worrisome mountain of old and broken wind turbine blades.
First Wind, just over a decade old, has prospered by following an unconventional strategy that often avoids towering ridgelines, instead building at lower elevations and taking advantage of technological advances that allow turbines to generate electricity at lower wind speWind, just over a decade old, has prospered by following an unconventional strategy that often avoids towering ridgelines, instead building at lower elevations and taking advantage of technological advances that allow turbines to generate electricity at lower wind spewind speeds.
Research from NREL shows exceptionally good wind speeds for utility - scale wind turbines along the southern coast of St. Croix — including near the old oil refinery.
In 2011, the Michigan Wind Working Group Technical and Health Committee recommended lowering the state's old turbine noise limits from 55dBa to 40dBa.
In practice, according to Beth Ambrose, senior consultant at Jones Lang LaSalle, the property specialist, that means the use of a variety of new and old technologies, from solar panels and wind turbines to recycling facilities and incinerators to produce energy from rubbish.
The study also looked at onshore turbines in Denmark and discovered that their decline was much less dramatic even though its wind farms tended to be older.
But current wind turbine techonology is barely two decades old, constantly evolving and rarely are these massive machines put as near to residences as they are in Ontario.
Something like this occurred when, in the early 1990s, the Danish government started deploying massive wind turbines offshore, which produced energy far more cheaply than the older, smaller ones.
(Editor's Note: Another repost at a time when we need to remind people of how McGuinty has destroyed rural Ontario) Whenever I get into a debate with someone over wind turbines, they always haul out that old dated nugget about coal plants.
Leave Climategate 2 alone Panorama last week and Stupid old Prince Phillip and rising fuel bills Concentrate on the uneconomic cost of Wind Turbines causing Fuel poverty and Julia Gillards Carbon Taxes etc etc use the recession to our advantage (and save a load of unessessary hardship for people) Get our movement Real and back on track
The end of subsidies for older turbines, however, threatens countless wind farms.
The wind farms that are being abandoned are old ones, with old, out - dated turbines.
It is quite possible that wind turbines will last longer than 25 years, but the technology is improving quickly and typical 25 - year - old turbines have become obsolete, Salmon Beach, Esperance, WA, for example, became obsolete in 15 years.
On older analogue type radar wind turbines can appear as clutter.
In Esperance, WA for example, small, old, out - dated turbines have been replaced with bigger, newer ones; the capacity of the new wind farms (5600 kW) is much greater than the old one (360 kW).
I am not sure about that ratio being OK you know Stuart — according to this old tool — we will need to have approx 9255 wind turbines operating by 2020 to meet the predicted demand.
The CWP Compressed Air Enclosed Wind Turbine is the brainchild of 89 year old Raymond Green, who invented and patented his unique version of wind power generaWind Turbine is the brainchild of 89 year old Raymond Green, who invented and patented his unique version of wind power generawind power generator.
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A 15 - year - old student in Oklahoma wrote to the North American Platform Against Windpower with questions about the negative aspects of wind turbines for a Future Farmers of America project:
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