Sentences with phrase «as average wind»

Wind resource assessment — provides maps of a country or state / province that includes specific wind data such as average wind speed and its variability.

Not exact matches

As Stephen Gandel and Katie Fehrenbacher report this week in Fortune, the average cost of wind energy dropped by about a third between 2008 and 2013; in some parts of the country, it's the cheapest electricity source available.

In addition, due to the Texas Windstorm Association (which writes wind - only policies) classifying HO - 1, 2 and 5 premiums as HO - 3, the average premium for homeowners insurance is artificially high.

Polaris Industries Inc., which started winding down its Victory motorcycle operations early last year, projected adjusted profit of as much as $ 6.20 a share for 2018, well below analysts» $ 6.99 a share average estimate.

Despite starting the season in the minors, he wound up as a finalist for the Vezina Trophy with 35 wins, a 2.01 goals - against average and a.921 save percentage.

As you can see, the under has performed extremely well when the average wind speed is at least 10 miles per hour (mph) over the duration of the game.

With average wind speeds reaching as high as 22 miles per hour today, you'll want

In 2017, for instance, according to the US Energy Information Administration, the levelised cost of electricity, which is a key comparator of generating effectiveness, is likely to average $ 96 / MWh for new wind plant as opposed to $ 97.4 / MWh for conventional coal.

The Cuomo administration estimates the Clean Energy Standard, chiefly its nuclear subsidies, will add an average of $ 2 to residential electric bills, although the Empire Center calculated the standard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021 from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind turbines.

Texas experienced blackouts in February 2011, as colder - than - average winter weather simultaneously increased demand for electricity and damaged coal - fired power plants and wind turbines.

The false - color images show a monstrous storm 20 times as large as an average Earth hurricane — the eye alone is 1,250 miles across — with winds reaching 300 mph.

And while wind energy had been growing at an average annual rate of 27 percent and solar photovoltaic, too, was surging as costs fell sharply, so - called clean coal remained a long way off and governments» ambitions for fuel efficiency and electric vehicles were well ahead of reality.

For example, westerly wind and air temperature can cause a 7 - ounce change in average chick weights, as compared to 3.5 - ounce change caused by wind speed and precipitation.

The comet appears to have undergone visible changes, including the changes in the size and number of surface features such as smooth patches, pits, and craters, and the loss of ice vaporized by the Sun or blasted off its surface by the Solar Wind into its tail as well as failing back on the object like snow, so that it appears to shrink, on average, by 25 to 50 centimeters (9.2 to 19.7 inches) with each orbit around the Sun.

Lader's script is above - average and so is McDowell's direction, which burbles with conflicting moods and tones that are generally quite effective in their mixture, until certain repercussions play out with a heavier hand as things begin to wind up.

HERE»S WHAT I DO N'T LIKE: Loud wind noise (anytime I exceed 40 - 45 mph), makes it hard to hear the radio at normal volume; intrusive road noise, which I corrected by swapping out the standard Goodyear tires with Continental tires; lackluster acceleration for a V6 engine, CVT tends to lose momentum when you lift your foot off of the gas pedal — often jerky when accelerating and decelerating while in motion and when accelerating from a dead stop; as mentioned by another reviewer, accelerator hesitates before catching when shifting from reverse to drive; bumps in the road are not well absorbed (the 2016 model may have addressed this issue); no power to windows after you shut off the engine; no auto door locks; poor V6 fuel efficiency averaging around 24 MPGs combined; trunk lid's arms and safety feature makes it heavy and sometimes hard to lift open; Infotainment system does understand most voice commands; and Harmon Kardon speakers are sometimes crackly.

«Fortunately, between - bath sprays and wipes are very effective impulse products,» Fucini says, adding that retailers that merchandise them as impulse - buys are «likely to wind up increasing the size of their average sale.

The average water temperature is 75 degrees Fahrenheit, so if you and your travel companion like aquatic fun, Phu Quoc's ideal weather and calm waters are ideal for water sports such as snorkelling, scuba diving, fishing, kayaking, jet - skiing and wind sailing popular.

TIDES, WAVES AND WIND Diving is generally conducted without any reference to the tide as the average range is only about 1 to 1-1/2 feet (31 - 46 cm).

Throughout June the average wind speeds range from 1 m / s to 7 m / s, which is considered as a light to moderate breeze, rarely exceeding a fresh breeze of 9 m / s.

Wind averages pick up only slightly to about 10 mph and the Beaufort percentage stays around the same as October at 27 %.

Furthermore, over the course of March the average wind speeds vary from 0 m / s to 7 m / s, which is considered as a calm to moderate breeze, rarely exceeding 10 m / s.

Because, as you can see in the pic above, Hudson decided to make their game a bit more frantic than your average platformer, and added a life - bar / timer, that winds down as your progress through the level, and drops even further down if you get hit by enemies (or stub your toe on rocks....

A research team led by James Overland, Ph.D., of NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, Wash., examined the wind patterns in the subarctic in the early summer between 2007 and 2012 as compared to the average for 1981 to 2010.

(Mirriam and Websters define climate as: 2 a: the average course or condition of the weather at a place usually over a period of years as exhibited by temperature, wind velocity, and precipitation.)

Global average generation costs fall by a quarter for utility - scale solar PV, almost 15 % for onshore wind, and by a third for offshore wind by 2022, as competition drives down costs.

In 2005, during the hottest average decade on record, 8 low - wind conditions known as «the doldrums» combined with very high ocean temperatures to cause massive coral bleaching in the Virgin Islands.9 This was followed by a particularly severe outbreak of at least five coral diseases in the Virgin Islands, resulting in a decline in coral cover of about 60 percent.9 There is some indication that higher ocean temperatures — between 86 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit (30 to 35 degrees Celsius)-- promote optimal growth of several coral pathogens.9 Other research showed that elkhorn coral post-bleaching had larger disease lesions than unbleached specimens, suggesting that bleaching may increase the corals» susceptibility to disease.9, 10

Avoid high - risk sites: Extreme / above average frequency of tornado incidents; Enclosed locations that may «trap» air and create unusually high incidents of fog, cold air advection, etc.; Vicinity of orographically induced winds, such as Santa Ana and Chinook; Complex meteorological zones, such as adjacent to an ocean or other large bodies of water; and Persistent periods of extreme snow depths...

The wind turbines don't look as good if windspeed does not average 50km / hour for as many hours a year.

«The wind turbines donâ $ ™ t look as good if windspeed does not average 50km / hour for as many hours a year.»

The SOI also maps to the estimate of the global averaged angular momentum, also known as wind energy.

New wind energy is now being contracted for as low as 6.45 cents per kilowatt hour in Ontario, well below the average cost for electricity generation of 11.14 cents as of May 1, 2016.

On average, a solar farm must cover an area 150 times larger than nuclear to generate the same quantity of electricity as a nuclear plant; wind farms must cover an area 750 times larger.

The study didn't include wind industry - related eagle deaths in three other states as well at the 1980s - era Altamont Pass in Northern California, which has been killing an average of 67 eagles a year.

In addition to the dry air, Landsea and Klotzbach pointed to above - average wind shear as another key reason.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

There are two plausible explanations for the observed decline in average load factors as wind farms age.

The results show that after allowing for variations in wind speed and site characteristics the average load factor of wind farms declines substantially as they get older, probably due to wear and tear.

Siemens Gamesa expects a rapid rise in the global offshore wind market to grow at an average rate of 11 % (measured as CAGR) and reach 15GW in installations per year in 2030, the wind OEM's offshore chief executive Andreas Nauen said.

First, to replace 1 kW of coal generation, almost 3 kW of wind generation will be needed, because wind turbines run at 30 % output on average as compared with about 88 % for a new coal plant.

We have a ways to go to reach the depths of the Dalton minimum, but as SC24 winds down and if SC25 is also weak, or even weaker, we could reach Dalton - minimum average solar conditions, and from that, we will probably also experience a significant temperature dropoff.

Recharge news Siemens Gamesa expects a rapid rise in the global offshore wind market to grow at an average rate of 11 % (measured as CAGR) and reach 15GW in installations per year in 2030, the wind OEM's offshore chief executive Andreas Nauen said.

As there are 4000 square meters to an acre, this would mean that an «average» wind turbine would be able to produce, on average, 4800 watts (4.8 kilowatts) per acre.

In the seven days to 19 January, wind farms contributed around 6 per cent of overall supply in SA and VIC, and as a consequence, wholesale prices were at least 40 % lower (on a consumption weighted average basis) than they would have been without the contribution of wind.»

3TIER, a Vaisala company operating in renewable energy assessment and forecasting, recently announced the public release of wind and solar annual averages from its global datasets as part of Google's Map Gallery launch.

The two scientists reckoned that even slightly higher average temperatures would mean more energy and therefore higher wind speeds at sea as well.

The corresponding working quasilinear wave equation for the barotropic azonal stream function Ψm ′ of the forced waves with m = 6, 7, and 8 (m waves) with nonzero right - hand side (forcing + eddy friction) yields (34) u˜ ∂ ∂ x (∂ 2Ψm ′ ∂ x2 + ∂ 2Ψm ′ ∂ y2) + β˜ ∂ Ψm ′ ∂ x = 2Ω sin ϕ cos2 ϕT˜u˜ ∂ Tm ′ ∂ x − 2Ω sin ϕcos2 ϕHκu˜ ∂ hor, m ∂ x − (kha2 + kzH2)(∂ 2Ψm ′ ∂ x2 + ∂ 2Ψm ′ ∂ y2), [S3] where x = aλ and y = a ln -LSB-(1 + sin ϕ) / cos ϕ] are the coordinates of the Mercator projection of Earth's sphere, with λ as the longitude, H is the characteristic value of the atmospheric density vertical scale, T˜ is a constant reference temperature at the EBL, Tm ′ is the m component of azonal temperature at this level, u˜ = u ¯ / cos ϕ, κ is the ratio of the zonally averaged module of the geostrophic wind at the top of the PBL to that at the EBL (53), hor, m is the m component of the large - scale orography height, and kh and kz are the horizontal and vertical eddy diffusion coefficients.

Worldwide there will likely be an average increase in the maximum wind speed of tropical cyclones (hurricanes and typhoons) of 2 to 11 %.6 Because of the way extremes respond to changes such as these, Category 4 and 5 hurricanes are expected to nearly double in number by the end of the century.7 The rate of rainfall associated with tropical cyclones, an important factor in flooding, is expected to increase approximately 20 % within 100 km of the center of these storms.8

In our paper, we have dealt with the zonally averaged zonal winds as the mean flow and excluded from our consideration packets of quasistationary planetary waves trapped in predominantly meridional elongated waveguides, specifically those originating in the tropics.

Regarding SSW events and N. Europe or British Isle weather, without the modern satellite data some potential clues on these would be sudden outbreaks of extreme cold (20C or more below average) with persistent NE or E winds (as the vortex is disrupted).