Sentences with phrase «airborne wind»

However, while airborne wind turbines are on the horizon, today's turbines are killing hundreds of thousands of birds every year.

Sky Windpower is an airborne wind generation system that is often given glowing reviews in the inadequately critical popular and technical press.

Basically, an airborne wind turbine that harvests the power of the wind at a lower cost than tradition wind turbines.

«We could have some sort of airborne wind turbines tethered to the surface.»

Here, Makani's airborne wind turbine sits on the runway prior to a test flight in Alameda, California.

However the company says their planned first commercial product will be a 600 kW utility - scale airborne wind turbine.

Presently the company's airborne wind turbine can generate 30 kilowatts, compared to the approximately 600 kW a traditional wind turbine might produce.

In order to provide electricity on the scale of wind farms, hundreds of airborne wind turbines will need to be launched and operated, necessitating such a central hub.

Not exact matches

Phthalates can wind up airborne and in the dust in your home.

A bounce house at a Niagara County corn maze became airborne yesterday when strong winds swept through the area, carrying several children with it as it went off the ground and bumping a woman standing nearby.

When reflected back by rain, hail, airborne debris, or even insects, the waves create an image of storm activity and indicate wind velocity.

Noting that the timing of KD outbreaks in Japan coincides with certain wind patterns from Asia, climate scientist Xavier Rodó, PhD, and colleagues at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences, both in Barcelona, used computer models to simulate air currents and airborne particle transport for all days since 1977 with high numbers of KD cases in Japan, based on data compiled by Yoshikazu Nakamura, MD, and colleagues at Jichi Medical University in Japan.

A significant number of people are becoming increasingly sensitive to low exposures to 2,4 - D and many other chemicals.16 This increasing sensitivity may be due to a combination effect of simultaneous exposure to estrogenic nonylphenols15 mixed with locally sprayed herbicides, which are also highly estrogenic, and to antiandrogenic wind drift fungicides, 17 as well as to many other airborne chemicals.

The Wind Rises could just as well be titled «Jiro Dreams of Airplanes,» as beautifully animated airborne reveries bookend the drama, visions shared between Jiro and the innovative Italian engineer Gianni Caprioni who declares that «airplanes are beautiful dreams.»

The mixes offer no shortage of reference scenes; from the opening gusts of wind to a couple of instances of rainfall, from creaky mechanical movement to airborne explosions.

Nobby and Sebastian reconnect at a charity event, where Sebastian's mission is compromised by his brother and he accidentally winds up shooting an AIDS - stricken child, killing the World Health Organization's head, and infecting Daniel Radcliffe (played by someone who clearly isn't Daniel Radcliffe) with HIV via airborne blood and throat wounds.

Secure or remove objects (such as chairs, potted plants or garden utensils) in and near the colony that could become airborne during high winds or get washed away.

Imagine air travel where the crew has no idea of what hazards lay ahead; an urban environment where no one knows where an airborne toxic hazard is headed; a wildfire where the firefighting crews have no idea which way the wind is blowing or where the fire will move; and severe weather where a community has no warning of an impending tornado, hail storm, or flash flood.

These minute airborne particles, and also gases that lead to their formation, can come from factory and vehicle emissions, volcanic eruptions and biomass burning, sea spray and desert winds, and even natural forest and soil emissions.

For example, a wind farm by the ocean is more likely to experience airborne salts stirred up by the sea, whereas the quantity of salt in the atmosphere in inland locations will generally be decreased.

For wind turbines, the environmental operating conditions include wind - speed distributions, turbulence intensity, solar radiation, temperature, humidity, and airborne salt concentrations, among others.

Tested on airborne missions this spring, DopplerScatt is a cousin of QuickSCAT and RapidScat, which used a scatterometer to measure the «roughness» of the ocean surface and determine the direction and intensity of wind.

Stephen Landrigan, and Irish playwrite friend of mine who lives with us there said, «It's emblematic of Afghanistan that children take scraps of plastic bag, a couple of crossed sticks and a little bit of string, and get these things airborne when there's no wind.»

Still, one legal issue could still bring Fokina's airborne babies down to earth or at least take the wind out of her business name.

Wind is another hurricane threat, so park well away from large trees and any objects that could become airborne.