Sentences with phrase «altitude winds»

One that would be sensitive to the more frequent low altitude winds in the area.

High - altitude winds carry the broken down molecules around the planet.

CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to address the delay, «High altitude wind shear data shows a probable 2 % load exceedance.

The high - altitude wind shear may help knock the storm down a little this year, but the ocean temperatures won't.

In particular, the vast, high - altitude wind currents known as jet streams, which arise from the differences in temperature between the warm tropics and cooler high latitudes, are responsible for shortening or speeding the day.

Those high - altitude winds zip along at more than 300 miles per hour and generate electrical currents that surround the Earth.

Early results show Titan's high - altitude winds bluster westerly at 250 miles per hour.

That year, high - altitude winds in northern Greenland tended to flow east to west — a reversal of the usual west to east pattern.

Weak states of the high - altitude wind circling the Arctic then favors the occurrence of cold spells in the mid-latitudes.

Altaeros Energies to attempt wind power generation at 1,000 feet with Alaska High Altitude Wind Turbine

Climate disruption is strengthening high altitude winds by speeding up the jet stream, as it has long since been expected to do.

«We will already begin to deliver and install our CMS in the 1,200 - meter altitude wind farm this year,» said Holger Fritsch, managing director of Bachmann Monitoring GmbH.

If the high - altitude winds don't blow at the same speed at all levels — if wind shears are present — the storm becomes disorganized and weakens.

Recently a study from the Carnegie Institution and California State University found that high - altitude winds such as those found above New York City could power the world a 100 - times over.

As our planet warms, the speed difference between upper and lower altitude winds — known as «wind shear» — should increase.

This high - altitude wind current, flowing rapidly from west to east, separates cold Arctic air (to the north) from warmer temperate air (to the south).

«We find wind turbines placed on Earth's surface could extract kinetic energy at a rate of at least 400 TW, whereas high - altitude wind power could extract more than 1,800 TW.»

[2] In this context, «unrecoverable» offshore wind includes high altitude wind, high seas wind (greater than 200 nm offshore), and wind near Alaska, which is far from load centers (Beiter and Musial 2016).

El Nino has been linked to strong winter storms that batter Southern California, to a weak hurricane season in the Atlantic as high - altitude winds shear the towering tops from developing tropical storms, to searing droughts in southern Asia like the one that spawned enormous rain forest fires in Indonesia in 1997.

High - altitude winds can make it sprinkle over hundreds of square miles, though it's most intense near the blast site.

Colder temperatures and weaker high - altitude winds may make the arctic polar vortex even more intense in future winters and trigger greater ozone loss, says atmospheric scientist Paul Newman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, although the losses probably won't approach those in Antarctica.

Sure, other companies were tinkering with high - altitude wind (see «High Fliers,» next page), but he had an advantage in his solid source of funding: his own fortune.

Joby Energy is not the only company trying to tap high - altitude wind.

Among the companies that are competing to tap high - altitude winds, Joby Energy stands out for its business savvy and stable funding.

«Finding a resource so large is like finding an oil field in your garden,» says Cristina Archer, an environmental engineer at the University of California, Chico, and lead author of a global survey on high - altitude winds.

What's more, high - altitude winds are more consistent, so those kilowatts would be generated virtually all the time.

I believe that technology is high - altitude wind.»

The reason, says Caldeira, is that slowing down the high - altitude winds would slow the heat transfer between the equator and the poles.

Google will funnel some of its profits into a new effort, dubbed RE < C (for renewable energy cheaper than coal, as Google translates it) to make sources such as solar - thermal, high - altitude wind and geothermal cheaper than coal «within years, not decades,» according to Weihl.

«Such concentrations are clear evidence of strong irregularities in Mars» high altitude winds and circulation patterns,» says NASA in a statement.

The company says their product could reduce energy costs by up to 65 % by harnessing those high altitude winds, and due to the unique design, installation time can be reduced from weeks to just days.

We need hundreds of companies working on thousands of ideas, including crazy - sounding ones that don't get enough funding, such as high - altitude wind and solar chemical (using the energy of the sun to make hydrocarbons).

The ocean waters throughout the North Atlantic are warmer than average, the trade winds are lighter, and there is no El Niño event in the Pacific to ramp up high altitude winds that can tear nascent storms apart.

, the high - altitude wind that separates warm air to its south from cold air to the north.

The heat and moisture that are then released to the atmosphere in fall and winter could be leading to disturbances of the jet stream, the high - altitude wind that separates warm air to its south from cold air to the north.

So it was not exceptional warmth, but exceptionally low wind shear (high - altitude wind) that led to Irma's birth.»

Suppose I invented a system for harnessing higher - altitude wind (there are a few groups working on this) which is much steadier and stronger than wind at the height of existing turbines.

Saul Griffith is the President and Chief Scientist at Makani Power, a company that is seeking to harness clean energy from high - altitude wind.