Sentences with phrase «as wind turbine blades»

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Biello: And they do have some more aggressive policies than even the U.S. at present as far as renewable energy goes, whether those who actually realized they have had a lot of problems with kind of wind farms that didn't perform up to expectations, but they do have fairly aggressive targets for how much energy it needs to come from renewable resources like the wind and the sun, they have become the manufacturer, as in all things, for Photovoltaics and the wind turbine blades that are basically powering the green revolution in the West.

A massive wind turbine — capable of turning the breeze into two million watts of power — has 40 - meter - long blades made from fiberglass, towers 90 meters above the ground, weighs hundreds of metric tons, and fundamentally relies on roughly 300 kilograms of a soft, silvery metal known as neodymium — a so - called rare earth.

The tests also showed that the improvement came from changes in the pitch angle: As the turbine blades flexed back or forth thanks, respectively, to wind pressure and centrifugal effect, the pitch angle changed slightly.

Hu will use the tunnel as part of a $ 663,000 grant from NASA to study icing of aircraft wings, part of a $ 360,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study icing of wind turbine blades and part of a $ 20,000 seed grant from Iowa State's Institute for Physical Research and Technology to develop new technology to study aircraft icing.

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

Though small by today's standards — the wind turbine's blades were less than one third the length of those installed offshore by Deepwater Wind — the 200 kilowatt - capacity turbine produced as much as 11 percent of the island's energy needs during off - peak winter monwind turbine's blades were less than one third the length of those installed offshore by Deepwater Wind — the 200 kilowatt - capacity turbine produced as much as 11 percent of the island's energy needs during off - peak winter monWind — the 200 kilowatt - capacity turbine produced as much as 11 percent of the island's energy needs during off - peak winter months.

The larger a wind turbine is the more energy it can produce, but there's a problem: as the size grows so does the weight of the turbine blades which puts a limit on turbine size.

Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies such as concentrated solar power and more recently turbine blades, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 + gigawatt capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

Earlier this year, Deepwater selected Alstom as the project's turbine supplier and long - term maintenance and service provider, and received delivery of the project's 15 wind turbine blades from the turbine manufacturer.

Only as the truck neared the base of a 95 - meter - tall wind turbine did the silvery - white blades become visible among the trees.

For something that the wind industry keeps telling us is as rare as hen's teeth, the unshackling of 10 tonne blades (euphemistically called «component liberation»), the total collapse of 200 - 300 tonne turbines and the spontaneous combustion of turbine generators (and the 1,000 litres of highly toxic gear and hydraulic oil that slosh around inside the -LSB-...]

The successful delivery of this project will provide a route for substantial financial benefits to both the purchasers of wind turbines and manufacturers, through increased blade life and significantly reduced maintenance costs, as well as a reduction in the cost of energy from offshore wind farms.»

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As the wind blows, it flows over the airfoil - shaped blades of wind turbines, causing the turbine blades to spin.

As the blades of a wind turbine turn, the kinetic energy of the wind is converted into mechanical energy, which is transmitted through a drive shaft to an electrical generator in the nacelle.

Thousands of GE turbines on land as well as in the sea are already using LM Wind's blades.

LM Wind Power builds rotor blades for the industry's bread - and - butter 1.5 - and 2 - megawatt wind turbines, as well as 8 - megawatt behemoths with rotors spanning 180 meters, or roughly the length of two football fieWind Power builds rotor blades for the industry's bread - and - butter 1.5 - and 2 - megawatt wind turbines, as well as 8 - megawatt behemoths with rotors spanning 180 meters, or roughly the length of two football fiewind turbines, as well as 8 - megawatt behemoths with rotors spanning 180 meters, or roughly the length of two football fields.

Each as tall as the Statue of Liberty, the turbines use 240 - foot - long blades made by the Danish company LM Wind Power attached to a 6 - megawatt Haliade generator made by GE Renewable Energy in France.

The company builds blades for the industry's 1.5 - and 2 - megawatt, meat - and - potatoes wind turbines as well as 8 - megawatt behemoths with rotors spanning 180 meters — more than two football fields.

The new factory is expected to make the enormous blades for wind turbines, which can be longer than an Olympic swimming pool, as well as the generator units that sit at the top of the turbine.

The blades of a wind turbine at an Australian Antarctic base broke off and narrowly missed a storage building as they crashed to the ground, reports Phys.org, forcing the icy outpost to switch to backup power.

Surveillance radar, used to detect aircraft and display their position on radar screens, can also show returns from other moving sources such as cars, trains and blades of a wind turbine.

If the wind speed increases above the cut - out speed the blades are «feathered» (turned about their axes so as not to produce rotational force at the hub) and the turbine stops.

As far as I know, wind turbine blades have no de-icing capabilitieAs far as I know, wind turbine blades have no de-icing capabilitieas I know, wind turbine blades have no de-icing capabilities.

The authors simply dismissed actual reported field CFs as irrelevant and not valid because they allegedly apply only to short, «low - power turbines with small diameters in slow - wind areas [less than 7 to 7.5 m / s annual winds]...» The authors, however, fail to explain why the higher power windmills with large diameter blades were not available before, if indeed this combination is wind energyís economic panacea.

Shadow flicker occurs when a tall wind turbine is between the sun and a person's house, causing the light coming through the house's windows to strobe in and out, as the turbine blades block sunlight

Picture a circle with the same diameter as the blades of a wind turbine.

Current wind turbines are very inefficient as they do not make the best use of the surface area that the rotor blades operate in.

As the wind speed increases, the efficiency decreases further as the wind turbine feathers its blades or even brakes them to prevent spinning too fasAs the wind speed increases, the efficiency decreases further as the wind turbine feathers its blades or even brakes them to prevent spinning too fasas the wind turbine feathers its blades or even brakes them to prevent spinning too fast.

As for wind turbine impacts everyone accepts the fact that turbine blades kill birds and bats.

Prior to joining Brooks Kushman, she gained patent experience as an in - house clerk at a prominent auto company and technical experience at Owens Corning developing wind turbine blade technology.

Protesting one proposed wind farm in 1999 near the habitat of the rare California condor, local environmentalists decried the turbine blades as «condor Cuisinarts.»