Sentences with phrase «as big a turbine»

So offshore, you want as big a turbine as possible, with as big a rotor as possible that will run longer.

Not exact matches

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.

GE enters the turbine power race GE announced last month that it had begun a two - year project to develop a direct drive wind turbine as big as 10 to 15 MW using superconducting magnets.

And General Electric Co. is working on a turbine that could be as big as 15 MW — five times larger than existing offshore machines.

Thousands more will be erected in the next 15 years, and bigger will be better as far as turbine makers are concerned.

Environmental harm remains a big concern as the tidal industry develops, and U.S. regulators require testing to insure that such turbines don't pose a threat to marine life.

As the demand for sustainable energy rises, see how the wind industry is responding by building bigger and more powerful turbine blades.

From vast outdoor public sculptures such as the Angel of the North and Mark Wallinger's soon to be realised White Horse to the many projects designed to enliven Tate Modern's vast, bare Turbine Hall, the scale of art just keeps getting bigger.

With an exhibition area of 1,800 sq metres, the Tanks are more than half as big as the not - small Turbine Hall, and exceed the display space of entire regional galleries, such as the Turner Contemporary in Margate.

Filling the 55,000 - square - foot (5,100 m) hall, the aim is to help the Armory reposition itself as a big - art destination like the Turbine Hall in London's Tate Modern.

Re # 332, «yes, that is very true (after reading more data) that its around 5 - 7 GWh per annum per turbine but the bigger they are the larger the space between them and hence the amount of land required yields not more energy (or a little more as the turbines are built higher.»

China has just emerged as the world's largest manufacturer of wind turbines and solar panels, and plans to be the world's biggest builder of nuclear power plants in the coming decade.

As technology and economics contribute to wind turbines getting bigger and more powerful with each passing year, the Department of Energy is hard at work making strides in the opposite direction.

Last year, the Chinese company Goldwind took the crown as the world's biggest wind turbine maker, leaving European companies in the shade.

I suspect they are just another AstroTurf organization shilling for Big Wind; as the federal [Production Tax Credit] continues to decline, Big Wind is ever more insistent on changing turbine setback laws so as to clog more turbines in less space, nonparticipating landowners be damned.

Turbines in the US wind market will continue to get bigger as competition among the shrinking number of OEMs intensifies and developers seek a lower levelised cost of energy (LCOE), especially as the production tax credit (PTC) is phased out.

Where wind turbines crowd, say, the Tehachapi Pass in California or the Nantucket Sound in Cape Cod, some observers think they might as well be looking at big, unattractive power plants.

Centrifuge is the biggest enemy of our current technology as it generates friction and changes the molecular structure of the rotating turbine.

Since our biggest worry was carrying the air conditioning load in the afternoons in the Bay Area, we used wind turbines, which became active just as we needed their energy, and needed NO FUEL.

Germany made big noises and lots of wind turbines, but increased coal burning to make up for the closing of nuclear power plants, as did Japan.

The 1,034 big turbines now running in Britain produce about 700MW of electricity — about as much as one conventional power station — but in the next seven years more than 7,000 MW of generating power will be installed on 73 new farms.

Speak Softly & Carry A Big Turbine For at least a decade, China has been perceived as unwilling to commit to Kyoto emission reduction goals, a perception reinforced by the respective governments of the US, Canada, and Australia, and climate «deniers» supported by vested fossile fuel interests.

As the Independent reports, the Esk hydro turbine is only intended to be the beginnings of something much bigger: