Sentences with phrase «these turbine towers»

The greatest coup came early last year, when Ontario announced it had negotiated an agreement with a consortium of Korean companies, including Samsung and Korea Power Electric Corp. (Details remain mysterious, but included construction of CS Wind's turbine tower plant in Windsor, a blade manufacturing facility in Tillsonburg, and two other facilities.)

If the bolts securing turbine blades to a rotor begin to loosen, or blade mass is lost due to a lightning strike, a blade can strike the turbine tower and fall off.

ITI Energy's system, designed by Oreada, Ltd., also based in Scotland, is made up of two friction clamps, connected by a hydraulic structure that allows caterpillar - like motion up and down the turbine tower (pdf).

After testing the technology on a tower built at one - fifth scale (compared with a normal turbine tower), Scottish Enterprise is now looking for partners to turn the prototype Orangutan into a climbing machine that can be commercialized.

The Vestas Tower Crane, still in the prototype phase, is designed to attach to a cable lowered down from a small crane located inside the turbine tower's nacelle (the cover housing the wind turbine's generator and gearbox) and hoisted upward.

Sritharan said the studies of concrete turbine towers will continue at Iowa State.

Which of three ways to connect the columns and panels works best for wind turbine towers?

Could concrete towers be a practical way to raise turbine towers from today's 80 meters to the steadier winds at 100 meters and taller?

And so, Sritharan and Schmitz watched as Doug Wood, engineering specialist and manager of Iowa State's Structural Engineering Research Laboratory, typed in the commands for the lab's hydraulic equipment to push or pull with bigger loads on a full - size test segment of a 100 - meter concrete wind turbine tower.

Schmitz, an Iowa State graduate student of civil, construction and environmental engineering, and Sri Sritharan, Iowa State's Wilson Engineering Professor and leader of the's College of Engineering's Wind Energy Initiative, were trying to answer some basic questions about using concrete panels and columns to build wind turbine towers using prefabricated, easily transportable components.

The goal was to test three column - and - panel segments for the expected loads at the top of a turbine tower.

«Concrete for taller wind turbine towers passes tests, could help expand wind energy nationwide.»

He calls the technology «Hexcrete,» which can also be combined with steel tubular technology to create hybrid wind turbine towers.

Sritharan said the models show using Hexcrete technology to build 120 - to 140 - meter wind turbine towers could drop the levelized costs 10 to 18 percent under the costs of current 80 - meter technologies.

«On the largest turbines, researchers continue to use an undersized 75 - meter search radius, even though the much larger turbines are known to catapult birds and bats much further from turbine towers.

Each Vestas turbine tower section travels from the factory to the wind farm site by way of train, truck, boat, or any combination of the three.

Taller wind - turbine towers will be crucial in expanding wind power nationwide, enabling wind energy production in all 50 states, according to studies by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, based in Golden, Colorado.

For instance, since no U.S. ship was capable of hoisting the 400 - ton nacelles, or generators, 330 feet to the tops of the Block Island turbine towers, Deepwater Wind had to lease a Norwegian vessel to do the job.

One solution is called «Hexcrete» wind turbine towers.

The Ballarat Courier announced on 2012/03/25 that the 48 air navigation lights on the turbine towers were going to be switched off following decisions from the Civil Aviation Authority and Minister for Planning Matthew Guy.

Our mission statement is «Safe Work in Wind Turbines» with our focus and value statement explaining that «through high - quality safety products and solutions for wind - turbine towers, we help our customers make wind energy more cost competitive.»

DTE says the process of getting local approvals and signing long - term leases for turbine towers can take two to three years.

The bill also increases from 10 percent to 15 percent the amount of power that utilities must get from renewable sources, which could mean hundreds of additional industrial wind turbine towers in rural communities.

Natural gas the real replacement, but new Michigan wind mandate means more turbine towers coming, too

Turbine towers could not be taller than 500 feet from base to blade tip, and they could not emit noise greater than 45 decibels at the property line.

Installation of the Block Island Wind Farm's turbine towers, blades and nacelles is scheduled to begin in early August at the project site, roughly three miles off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island.

Power from the Wind covers every aspect of small - scale wind energy systems, from an initial site assessment to wind turbine towers, from inverters to batteries, should an owner decide to create an off - grid or grid - intertied system with a battery backup.

Yesterday, a South Australian Department of Environment and Heritage officer collected the remains of a juvenile wedge - tailed eagle from the base of one of the Waterloo wind farm turbine towers.

It is possible that, if the eagle was hit by an ascending turbine blade, it could have been thrown this far; however, research by Dr Cindy Hull in Tasmania has indicated that wedge - tailed eagles are most often hit by descending turbine blades and that they rarely, if ever, fall as far as 180m from a turbine tower (it is possible that the eagle could have been dragged by a large scavenger).

A contractor said the dangers of big turbines are associated with huge underground vaults at the towers» bases (though, in fact, turbine towers are planted in solid concrete foundations).

After building more than 20,000 wind turbine towers, why have Germany and Denmark been unable to close a single coal - fired power plant?

THese TURBINE TOwers are 400 - 600 feet high!

There are environmental costs in mining and smelting the steel from which wind turbine towers are made.

In other Michigan communities targeted for wind development, a property owner who leases land to a developer gets annual payments of around $ 9,000 to $ 14,000 for allowing a turbine tower.

Summary of Wind Turbine Incidents (December 2008): • 41 Worker Fatalities, 16 Public - Includes falling from turbine towers and transporting turbines on the highway.

A word about Wind A 1 Gigawatt wind farm would have 200 x 5 Megawatt wind turbine towers.

But as a taster, there were 104 offshore wind - turbine tower - support designs competing for support in the Carbon Trusts Offshore Wind Accelerator programme, which runs until 2014.

But the forced entry into a turbine tower, and deliberate attempts to disable or damage the equipment, is more serious.

(3) Any footings or exposed edges on the bases of off shore turbines towers will create perching opportunities and attract birds.

Not exact matches

Last week, for instance, President Obama headed to Newton, Iowa, to highlight a company making towers for wind turbines in a factory originally built for Maytag.

Where silos used to top the landscape, they are now towered over by wind turbines.

Pecans.com acquired three different companies to complement its own business: Texas Collectible Tins, which makes specialty tins for packing pecans; Turbine, a wholesaler of hummingbird feeders and nut - gathering tools; and E-Z Tower, a maker of deer blind tower bracTower, a maker of deer blind tower bractower brackets.

Blade by blade, section by section of tower housings and foundations, the pieces that will make up 36 giant wind turbines in Chautauqua County are lumbering down county and state highways, a U.S. highway and an interstate, from Hamburg to Arkwright.

The prominence of that LG tower pales in comparison to 400 - foot wind turbines that get built with impunity on less famous scenery.

The state also wants Indian Point to install cooling towers that would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to mitigate harm to wildlife when the plant sucks in billions of gallons of Hudson River water to cool its turbines.

Each spin of the turbine — one of a handful of units that tower over North Fork's wineries — has helped make the vineyard greener.

Electricity generated by the rotors travels down the tether, eliminating the need for the massive cement towers holding traditional wind turbines.

A massive wind turbine — capable of turning the breeze into two million watts of power — has 40 - meter - long blades made from fiberglass, towers 90 meters above the ground, weighs hundreds of metric tons, and fundamentally relies on roughly 300 kilograms of a soft, silvery metal known as neodymium — a so - called rare earth.

The design, which he claims is hurricane resistant and easily transported, could allow turbines to tap winds 90 miles offshore without requiring expensive towers.

Offshore wind turbines will line the Atlantic coast; vast solar arrays will cover swaths of the southwestern desert; transmission towers will cradle high - voltage direct current lines and take electricity from the windy Great Plains to the populated coasts.