«A competitive supply chain lies at the heart of this and we are developing the idea of industry «clusters», so we can build momentum around key areas of the supply chain — whether it is operations and maintenance, or new technology such
as floating wind, or around blades.
Andrew Jamieson, chief executive of industry technology body ORE Catapult, said «agreeing a transformational sector deal» would unlock tremendous opportunities for innovative businesses to meet the growing international demand for new technologies such
as floating wind, robotics, digital transformation and artificial intelligence, delivering thousands of highly skilled jobs and massive economic benefits for the UK.
«We all [
as floating wind developers] now need to build confidence and confirm to investors that this is a viable industry.
Not exact matches
Nor will its use demand payment of fare, and no longer will His children need travel across land or sea, no, but upon the
winds of the air
as like He does, and shall dwell upon the clouds in great
floating cities away from the foulness of the earth's sand upon which will crawl the wicked children, and the wicked hostesses except those which He sees fit to allow to visit the cloudy cities for reasons of firm discipline... (10:45) Round shapely... (10:63) And
as it is written so shall it come to pass while I do live.
For what a presence he was, that snow - white fisherman With the long golden beak and the black stick legs, Whether preening his
wind - riffled feathers
As he stood on his bright - orange water temple (That pi - shaped torii that
floated like a spirit), Or flapping prehistorically across the pond To stalk and stab in the dark water Plucking with dagger bill a twitching minnow.
Mertesacker on that right is slow
as hell, Debuchey I don't know where he was all game, Ozil was just
floating around not looking bothered, the guy has all the time to measure his cross, in the middle we had a half hearted Kossy who was
winded and
wounded and did not want to aggravate his head injury, so he just jumped for the sake of jumping just to show that he tried heading that ball away, but it was a mental thing, he had just had a head injury so he was not going to use his head to header that ball..
He saw an enormous amount: that small species lay fewer eggs than large ones; that some build webs and some hunt; that some spiders» eggs are parasitised; that spiders «shed a complete skin, not excepting even the jaws»; and that young spiderlings throw out a length of silk and use it to
float off on the
wind — although he saw this
as a hunting technique, a madcap aerial pursuit of winged insects, rather than,
as we do now, a means of dispersal.
In what is billed
as the world's first research program on autonomous
floating vessels in metropolitan areas, autonomous boats will soon be deployed in the
winding canals of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The result is truly beautiful,
as it looks like a flower blowing away in the
wind, with the gold flecks
floating around like bits of petals.
The metallic creak of the cable
as Petit walks; the rustle and hiss of
wind passing over his clothes and through his hair; the muffled sound of traffic noises
floating up from 110 stories below: «The Walk» makes these and other sensations palpable, along with Petit's delight, defiance and moments of doubt and fear.
It all kicks off during Donkey Kong's birthday party, and just
as our simian hero is about to blow out his birthday cake candle, a gust of
wind extinguishes the flame and a snowflake
floats into view.
As Gob's obsessions deepen, we are taken from the battlefields at Chickamauga Creek to the society balls of New York, from innocent childhoods in Homer, Ohio, to the building of the Brooklyn Bridge; and as the machine grows, so does the amazing cast of real and imagined characters: Walt Whitman, ministering lovingly to the Civil War wounded; Mrs. Woodhull and her sister Tennessee, doing business on Wall Street and riding churning tides of scandal; Gob's friend Will Fie, a war veteran who builds a house from glass images of suffering and death; Maci Trufant, Victoria Woodhull's protege and Gob's great love; and even unnatural Pickie Beecher, a child who seems to float sinisterly between the living and the dea
As Gob's obsessions deepen, we are taken from the battlefields at Chickamauga Creek to the society balls of New York, from innocent childhoods in Homer, Ohio, to the building of the Brooklyn Bridge; and
as the machine grows, so does the amazing cast of real and imagined characters: Walt Whitman, ministering lovingly to the Civil War wounded; Mrs. Woodhull and her sister Tennessee, doing business on Wall Street and riding churning tides of scandal; Gob's friend Will Fie, a war veteran who builds a house from glass images of suffering and death; Maci Trufant, Victoria Woodhull's protege and Gob's great love; and even unnatural Pickie Beecher, a child who seems to float sinisterly between the living and the dea
as the machine grows, so does the amazing cast of real and imagined characters: Walt Whitman, ministering lovingly to the Civil War
wounded; Mrs. Woodhull and her sister Tennessee, doing business on Wall Street and riding churning tides of scandal; Gob's friend Will Fie, a war veteran who builds a house from glass images of suffering and death; Maci Trufant, Victoria Woodhull's protege and Gob's great love; and even unnatural Pickie Beecher, a child who seems to
float sinisterly between the living and the dead.
Annual fecal
floats become increasingly important
as does having owners closely monitor for bite
wounds, signs of trauma and more.
Add a few ping pong balls or safe,
wind - up water toys
as floaters on top.
Your best best is a longboard or SUP to catch the small
wind waves and remember freshwater waves don't
float you
as much so...
I don't know that
Wind Waker changed me in any identifiable way, but that slow
float between islands is something I've come back to in my head over and over again in the years since,
as a metaphor for where my life was at the time.
A very radiant visual impact is created by a string of colorful balloons and their reflections on the sea,
as they keep
floating from side to side with the waves and the
wind.
(They also loudly attacked climate modelers for not reproducing data on ocean cooling (which turned out to be due to some faulty instruments on Argo
floats), and then just
as loudly promoted results from models that predicted increased
wind shear in the Atlantic.)
The Hywind pilot park,
as it's named, is claimed to be the first
floating wind farm in the world, and will generate enough power for 20,000 homes with operations expected to start in late 2017.
Floating wind turbines can be placed away from the coast in deeper water
as they don't need to be anchored to sea floor - mounted towers, which are typically limited to a water depth of up to 260 ft (80 m).
Paul Wheelhouse, Scottish Minister for Business, Innovation & Energy twitted that the power project,
as a world first, will play a critical role in demonstrating the potential of
floating wind in Scotland's deep waters.
As such, the
Floating Wind Joint Industry Project focuses on unique challenges for large - scale floating wind farms, based on requirements for projects in the hundreds of megawatts to gigawatt capacity, deploying larger next - generation turbines and a range of technology inno
Floating Wind Joint Industry Project focuses on unique challenges for large - scale floating wind farms, based on requirements for projects in the hundreds of megawatts to gigawatt capacity, deploying larger next - generation turbines and a range of technology innovati
Wind Joint Industry Project focuses on unique challenges for large - scale
floating wind farms, based on requirements for projects in the hundreds of megawatts to gigawatt capacity, deploying larger next - generation turbines and a range of technology inno
floating wind farms, based on requirements for projects in the hundreds of megawatts to gigawatt capacity, deploying larger next - generation turbines and a range of technology innovati
wind farms, based on requirements for projects in the hundreds of megawatts to gigawatt capacity, deploying larger next - generation turbines and a range of technology innovations.
The Offshore
Wind Accelerator (OWA), now in its tenth year, has played a crucial role in commercialising technology innovations such as 66kV cabling, floating Lidar devices, and new access vessels, all of which have contributed to recent cost reduction and are equally applicable to floating offshore w
Wind Accelerator (OWA), now in its tenth year, has played a crucial role in commercialising technology innovations such
as 66kV cabling,
floating Lidar devices, and new access vessels, all of which have contributed to recent cost reduction and are equally applicable to
floating offshore
windwind.
Second, a 2016 DOE report concluded
floating offshore
wind is on the same cost reduction trajectory
as fixed offshore
wind, SIOW's McClellan said.
I could let the banners and the trumpets and the knights and soldiers pass me and leave me behind
as they leave the other women, if only I could still hear the
wind in the trees, the larks in the sunshine, the young lambs crying through the healthy frost, and the blessed blessed church bells that send my angel voices
floating to me on the
wind.
But not on the Sun itself,
as such changes can not travel upstream in the solar
wind, anymore than a log
floating down a fast - flowing river can not alter the flow at the headwaters.
Yet demonstrating large - scale technologies — such
as advanced modular nuclear reactors,
floating deepwater
wind turbines, or carbon capture and storage technologies — typically costs more than venture capitalists can finance alone, leaving a large «Valley of Death» that kills off many promising technologies before they can enter the marketplace.
Air - control authorities and geologists agree that the continent must be braced indefinitely for rapid shutdowns of air services
as computerized projections try to pinpoint where the ash clouds will
float next at the whim of shifting
winds.
As vertical
wind profiler and nacelle - Lidars already have achieved widespread industry acceptance and effective commercial deployment, scanning and
floating Lidars have rapidly been building their own track record in offshore
wind.
Some entrepreneurs are also considering
floating offshore
wind as a solution in California where the continental shelf quickly falls away to deeper waters (and the NIMBY game is strong).
And producing energy from the
floating farm (or «park»
as they charmingly call it in Scotland) still costs more than onshore and even non-
floating offshore
wind farms.
Calculations from WindEurope suggest that
floating wind would provide «serious additionality» to its offshore fleet
as 80 % of the Northern Seas resource potential is in waters 60 metres and deeper.
Last year was a major breakthrough for
floating wind,
as Norwegian oil firm Statoil commissioned the 30MW Hywind Scotland array, the world's first
floating wind park.
WindEurope's figures, based on information gathered in its offshore
wind database, don't include possible
floating projects in regions outside Europe such
as off Japan or Hawaii.
Deep - sea
wind,
as being pioneered in the EU and now possibly in the US, is certainly unproven so far, and the cost of installation are higher in deep water, but the new generation of
floating wind turbines may yet make it possible to exploit the very large resource further out at lower costs.
«The U.S. Coast Guard and Royal Dutch Shell were fighting 70 mile - per - hour
winds and 40 - foot swells
as they tried to assess damage to a
floating oil drilling ship that ran aground on a remote Alaskan island.»
Four different designs for offshore
wind floating platforms will be installed off the coast of Fukushima in 2013 and 2014,
as part of a demonstration project funded by $ 300m the Japanese government Ministry of Trade, Economic and Industry.
The first is that
floating can quickly make the most of hard - won lessons learned in conventional offshore
wind — in areas such
as technology development, turbine scale - up, project management and supply chain streamlining.
The prototype was designed through the framework of the European Alternative
floating offshore substructure for offshore
wind farms (AFOSP) project, which itself is carried out as part of the framework of KIC - InnoEnergy, in collaboration with Stuttgart Wind Energy at theUniversity of Stuttgart and Gas Natural Fen
wind farms (AFOSP) project, which itself is carried out
as part of the framework of KIC - InnoEnergy, in collaboration with Stuttgart
Wind Energy at theUniversity of Stuttgart and Gas Natural Fen
Wind Energy at theUniversity of Stuttgart and Gas Natural Fenosa.
Floating turbines are seen
as a next logical step in offshore
wind development.
«Led by the University of Maine, this project represents the first concrete - composite
floating platform
wind turbine to be deployed in the world — strengthening American leadership in innovative clean energy technologies that diversify the nation's energy mix with more clean, domestic energy sources,» the DOE said in a press release
as the VolturnUS demo turbine went into the Penobscot River on Friday.
«Adding
floating to the market means more offshore
wind in total [
as] some 80 % of Europe's offshore
wind resource potential is in waters 60 metres and deeper, where traditional bottom - fixed offshore is less attractive.
He said he expected the experience to come on Hywind Scotland would be key to the development of the OEM's so - called «1X» 10MW - plus turbine model for
floating wind, just
as Siemens Gamesa's involvement in the Hywind 1 project had informed its technology development strategy for its 6MW design — a model now scaled up to over 8MW.
Michael Hannibal, chief executive of Siemens Gamesa's offshore
wind business, told Recharge the project was «an important milestone [
as it] clearly shows the feasibility of
floating offshore
wind in terms of technology».
Floating wind power is fast taking shape
as a mainstream energy source, with analysts upgrading their expectations of market - size — though still far short of Statoil's forecasts — from early estimates of 3.5 GW by 2030 to around 5GW, led by the geographic fact that 60 - 80 % of world's offshore
wind resource is in water too deep for bottom - fixed turbines, and the societal reality that ever - vaster populations are going to be inhabiting coastal mega-cities.
Claire Mack, chief executive of Scottish renewable energy association Scottish Renewables, said the start - up of the Hywind array off Scotland is «a reminder that,
as the windiest country in Europe, and with some of the deepest waters and most promising offshore
wind sites, [the country] is perfectly placed to capitalise on
floating turbine technology».
• Highly skilled in maintaining a clean job site by handling site preparation activities in sync with provided directions • Demonstrated expertise in setting up forms in which concrete is poured such
as walkways, walls and pillars • Exceptionally well - versed in estimating concrete quantities and appropriate mixes of sand and cement • Proven record of efficiently building and erecting various concrete foundations and structures • Proficient in performing activities related to cutting and placing reinforcing wire mesh and handling rough leveling of concrete mixtures • Completely adept at handling fine finishing work by performing
floating, troweling and edging duties • Documented success in putting in place standards of safety to minimize work - related accidents and occupational hazards • Deeply familiar with standard methods, materials, tools and equipment used in concrete construction and maintenance • Focused on monitoring the effects of heat,
wind and cold on the curing of concrete through the entire process • Hands - on experience of applying sealants and hardening components to cure concrete surfaces and handling waterproofing duties • Qualified to operate equipment such
as power vibrators to handle compact concreting duties • Track record of efficiently and accurately directing the casting of concrete to ensure conformance to leveling standards
Spring is also the time for love and romance — you can just picture the scene, the happy couple smiling
as they emerge from the church, wedding bells ringing in the air and confetti
floating like blossom on the
wind.