Sentences with phrase «sea wind power»

If fully realised, the North Sea Wind Power Hub could, according to those involved in the project, supply 70 to 100 million Europeans with renewable energy by 2050.

«This is why we call the North Sea Wind Power Hub the energy sector's Apollo moon landing — it's a very ambitious project.»

Not exact matches

GE said that, based on wind conditions at a «typical» site in the German North Sea, one turbine could produce as much as 67 gigawatt hours (GWh) annually, enough power for as many as 16,000 European households.

There is a storm over the sea and a mighty wind; these were often indications of God's power.

In a mighty display of divine power, Jesus strolls across the Sea of Galilee and then stills a strong wind.

The fact is, of course, that whether by wind and tide, or by giant walls of water which formed between a dry pathway through the midst of the sea, what is affirmed is the Lord's Power over all power - human power as represented by Pharaoh's host, and natural power as represented by the wind and waves (see Power over all power - human power as represented by Pharaoh's host, and natural power as represented by the wind and waves (see power - human power as represented by Pharaoh's host, and natural power as represented by the wind and waves (see power as represented by Pharaoh's host, and natural power as represented by the wind and waves (see power as represented by the wind and waves (see Matt.

And in the way ancient religions worshipped the power of the sun, wind or sea, we are supposed bow down before the unstoppable power of market forces.

Within the next decade, hundreds or even thousands of solar - and wind - powered drones could roam the world's oceans, using satellites to relay information gathered from the sea surface and the air above.

With the United Kingdom, for one, aiming to get some 30 GW of electricity from wind farms in the North Sea within the next decade as part of its E.U. target to get 15 percent of its power — equivalent to about 40 percent of its electricity — from renewables by 2020, there are also proposals to build a giant subsea grid to bring that power ashore.

If those issues are resolved and the North Sea grid does get developed, the idea would be for it in turn to form part of the much - debated European supergrid, supposed to be able to seamlessly transport power from the wind - rich north and sun - soaked south to the center, from where most of the demand originates.

According to Archer and Jacobson's bottom - up estimates, which unlike Kleidon's are based on actual measurements of wind speeds, there is 1700 TW of wind power at an altitude of 100 metres over land and sea.

, that is utter nonsense and as wind and solar increase they will displace water and create power from hydro dams and sea wind farms into a totally clean electric infrastructure running clean electric steel forging, electric welding and electric aluminium smelting that will create these simple powerful cars for a much brighter future.

There are also a view Bali Sea Cruises operators who have wind powered crafts for those who have a more traditional and romantic idea of crossing the water, of course these crafts invariably have outboard motors in order to travel when the wind is light or in case f a drop in wind.

Our seas will need to have tens of thousands to these wind turbines deployed at several per week to do the job in time and only shallow offshore is viable at the present time and that is inline with existing baseload fossil fuel coal and gas fired power plants along with existing nuclear ones to.

We could render water from the sea or briny aquifers drinkable in endless amounts (as is being done with wind power in sere parts of Australia even now).

Power plants pump out mercury, Winds and rain send it over seas, Phytoplankton munch mercury, and Zooplankton feast, accumulating more.

In May 2012, at the German Energy Agency's (DENA's) behest, the nation's four grid operators (TSOs)-- 50Hertz, Amprion, TenneT TSO, and TransnetBW — drew up a joint network development plan identifying necessary expansions to help transmit power from the North and Baltic Sea, where many offshore wind parks are being planned and built, to industrialized areas in southern and western Germany.

In September, Swedish power company Vattenfall won the right to build two offshore wind projects in the Danish North Sea for 7 cents per kWh.

A Goldwind 1.5 - megawatt turbine with PMDD technology that was erected for research and development purposes in the Bohai Sea in 2007 is still «doing the job it's designed to do, producing power from wind.»

«In the southern hemisphere, the increase in wind power depends on the land - sea thermal gradient, and apparently the stronger emissions scenario (RCP8.5) is needed to make the difference in temperature and thus pressure between land and sea strong enough to amplify the winds.»

This is because, in this region, wind power depends on the temperature difference between the land and the sea, and previous research has shown that warming occurs faster on land than above oceans.

In the North Sea, power lines and gas pipelines are connecting littoral countries, enabling Norwegian hydropower to offset Dutch wind power and Norwegian gas to heat English homes.

Countries such as Germany, which has received praise from ecologists for its promise to phase out nuclear power stations and construct large number of wind parks on land and sea are finding that they do not solve the power problem.

The companies are working in a consortium to build the wind power complex at Gabal Elzeit on the Red Sea coast.

Indeed, as I argue in this article, I think it will be absolutely essential that we shift much of our current wasteful fossil fuel use (e.g., shipping the same goods back and forth across the ocean, driving gas - powered private automobiles, and producing disposable consumer goods) toward building new infrastructure for long - term resilience (e.g., local food economies, low - energy housing, greenspace, water catchment and storage, clean energy systems, trains, and, yes, wind - powered sea vessels!).

Perhaps more interesting, however, is the idea of the «supergrid,» where HVDC lines are used to interconnect entire continents with electricity so that electricity created in one place (such as solar power in the U.S. desert southwest or the Sahara Desert or wind power from offshore wind farms in the windy North Sea) is available wherever it's needed, no matter how far away that electricity is used.

A recently published report on deep water offshore wind energy says that floating turbines in the depths in the North Sea are the future of wind energy - which could power Europe 4 times over www.ewea.org/report/deep - water

Of course, there are also wind turbines, on land and at sea, hydroelectric power plants and biogas plants.

In contrast, while many African countries experience a similar trend in rapid urban coastal growth, the level of economic development is generally lower and consequently the capacity to adapt is smaller Coastal industries, their supporting infrastructure including transport (ports, roads, rail and airports), power and water supply, storm water and sewerage are highly sensitive to a range of extreme weather and climate events including temporary and permanent flooding arising from extreme precipitation, high winds, storm surges and sea level rise.

As climate change warms sea surfaces, the heat available to power hurricanes has increased, raising the limit for potential hurricane wind speed and with that an exponential increase in potential wind damage.

PGE vice president Arkadiusz Sekscinski told Recharge in March that it hopes to secure an environmental permit for its first offshore wind project — the 1GW Baltica wind farm in the Baltic Sea — in 2019, with first power flowing as soon as 2024.

The Dutch even applied wind power to reclaim land from the sea, and the whole country was kept dry by intermittently operating wind mills until 1850.

Just days ago I wrote here of another recent technical folly suffered by the North Sea Riffgat wind park, where its power transmission underwater cable worked its way out of the seabed to become exposed and thus at risk of becoming ensnarled with anchors or fishing nets.

STT hears that Commercial lenders are treating their loans to wind power outfits as being riskier than hang - gliding, parachuting and deep - sea diving — all on the one day.

To take an example that's closer to the topic of wind power and wildlife, consider a 2014 study published in the journal Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science that looked at whether gulls and other sea birds avoid offshore wind turbines off the coast of the British Isles.

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In April, Denmark's Dong Energy won a German power auction for two offshore wind projects in the North Sea — without any government subsidies.

As part of a major project on improving environmental conditions in the Baltic Sea through regional coordination and capacity - building, SEI Tallinn researchers examined possible trade - offs between marine protection — widely seen as a priority — and offshore wind power development in Estonia.

With broad experience in the acquisition of assets and a strong vision for a sustainable future, Mr. Manson was instrumental in Sea Breeze Power Corp.'s (then International Powerhouse Energy Corp.) acquisition of private wind energy development company, Sea Breeze Energy Inc..

In Estonia there is the general belief that wind power comes with noise, spoils the view of the sea, and restricts fishing.

E.ON, one of the world's largest investor - owned power and gas companies, has today agreed to sell an 80 percent stake in its 207 megawatt Rödsand II offshore wind farm to the Danish energy company SEAS - NVE.

Originally invented to clean up the BP Oil Spill pulling long oil sorbent using wind power by Cesar Harada, Protei is now a platform technology to transport scientific payload and clean - up equipment at sea, developed by an global community of scientists, engineers, makers and sailors.

Sea Breeze Power Corp. is a publicly traded Canadian corporation developing wind farms and high - efficiency transmission lines in Canada and the western United States.

On the island of Lolland, located in the Baltic Sea, the Danes had a problem - they produced 50 percent more electricity from wind power than they used.

It's unlikely that Denmark's energy will ever come 100 % from wind power — but with rising distributed generation (solar panels on homes), truly massive potential for offshore wind in the North Sea, and ample biomass infrastructure to pick up the slack, don't rule out the possibility that they might come pretty close.

Yes, there are significant challenges in relying on wind, solar, and the sea for our power.

Several companies in Norway have already begun building high voltage DC lines between Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Germany while Airtricity, an Irish wind power company, has plans to build what it calls a «Supergrid» — which would connect offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and Irish, North and Baltic seas with consumers in northern Europe.

Greens think it is «sustainable» to uglify scenic hills with whining wind towers, power poles, transmission lines and access roads, and to clutter pleasant estuaries and shallow seas with more bird - slicing turbines.

Government support will prioritize research into five types of renewables and energy forms: biomass fuels and biomass power, wind power, solar power, hydrogen energy and fuel cells, and natural gas hydrates, of which there is a large reserve in the South China Sea and which China recently succeeded in tapping.