Sentences with phrase «wind turbine blades do»

Rearranging, the power per area is Wind turbine blades do not extract all of the available power out of the wind.

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Over 7,000 Iowans like Bill Nosbisch are employed doing jobs like maintaining wind turbines, monitoring wind - farm systems, and making wind blades.

Biello: And they do have some more aggressive policies than even the U.S. at present as far as renewable energy goes, whether those who actually realized they have had a lot of problems with kind of wind farms that didn't perform up to expectations, but they do have fairly aggressive targets for how much energy it needs to come from renewable resources like the wind and the sun, they have become the manufacturer, as in all things, for Photovoltaics and the wind turbine blades that are basically powering the green revolution in the West.

With nearly 22,000 wind turbines in the country, he says energy firms do not have enough skilled people who can climb them to perform close visual inspections of the turbine blades, which can become delaminated after lightning strikes, for instance.

The larger a wind turbine is the more energy it can produce, but there's a problem: as the size grows so does the weight of the turbine blades which puts a limit on turbine size.

Only as the truck neared the base of a 95 - meter - tall wind turbine did the silvery - white blades become visible among the trees.

The blades of modern wind turbines don't come any closer to the ground than about 30 or 40m.

An anti-wind power Net site (Caithness Windfarm Information Forum) in 2013 recorded an average of about 20 blade - failure events per year world - wide (not necessarily in utility scale wind turbines and the blades did not necessarily fall off).

Although the weather wasn't ideal for spectators, it did keep the blades of the city's largest wind turbine turning at a rate of about 48 revolutions per minute.

The team has so far been testing the resin on components of wind turbine blades, but will now move to doing full - scale tests.

Current wind turbines are very inefficient as they do not make the best use of the surface area that the rotor blades operate in.