And forget about this bird issue buisness, statistics show only one bird is killed per 10 years of each wind turbine, so possibly 3 birds for a wind turbine's life span x the minimal amount of wind turbines we have (using reverse phycology so someone might
build more turbines) more birds are killed by domestic cats then wind turbines.
Not exact matches
RW: With the current interest in buying electric cars, plus
more wind
turbines being
built and growing Chinese infrastructure, does this mean the fundamentals are falling into place for rising copper prices and copper company share values?
The company has installed four banks of solar panels with plans to expand to 12, and already has
built the superstructure for two wind
turbines in anticipation of
more efficient technology coming later this year.
Everyone knows that wind
turbine which are
built on the most windy cost will end up standing still for maybe 50 % of the time, I have a large wind farm next to me right now it's windy and two out of the twelve
turbines are turning, most days we have one turning and I've yet to see
more then four turning.
«Both wind
turbines and photovoltaics deliver
more energy than it takes to
build and maintain them,» said GCEP postdoctoral scholar Michael Dale, a co-author of the study.
Wind - power engineers are developing new
turbines that are far
more efficient than those
built just a decade ago.
COPENHAGEN — Revolutionizing the energy industry to achieve a target concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere of no
more than 450 parts per million (ppm) would require
building 17 nuclear power plants a year between now and 2030; 17,000 wind
turbines a year; or two hydropower dams on the scale of Three Gorges Dam in China, according to the International Energy Agency.
These obstacles have delayed, and in some cases nixed, many projects — and so far, not a single offshore wind
turbine is operating in the U.S. Organizers of Cape Wind, an offshore wind park to be
built more than five miles (eight kilometers) from Cape Cod, Mass., have been battling public opposition and regulatory hurdles for
more than seven years.
As part of its strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to prevent global warming from exceeding 2 °C (3.6 °F), the Obama administration unveiled a plan in September to
build wind farms off of nearly every U.S. coastline by 2050 — enough
turbines to generate zero - carbon electricity for
more than 23 million homes.
Like older models, they will use uranium fission to heat water and drive a
turbine, but these reactors will be smaller, simpler to
build, and each will add
more than 1100 megawatts of capacity to the region's power grid when they come online in 2016 or 2017 — without emitting carbon dioxide.
He helps them
build a large wooden
turbine so they can have electricity again, but the longer he stays, the
more it becomes clear that he and Ann have a chemistry together.
As the demand for sustainable energy rises, see how the wind industry is responding by
building bigger and
more powerful
turbine blades.
Wind
turbines are generally connected to a single home or
building in order to create electricity for its occupants, however, there is an increasing number of wind farms being created that are connected to an electricity grid for the
more widespread distribution of electricity.
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.»
Same applies to wind
turbines: there are a lot of places they can be
built, such as those midwest corn and wheat fields, without harming the environment much
more than it already has been.
It's in the chemistry labs that are laying the
building blocks for cheaper,
more efficient solar panels, and it's in the re-born factories that are churning out
more wind
turbines every day all across this country.
Today, one
turbine stands, and it remains to be seen how many
more will be
built.
By purchasing Help
Build ™ carbon offsets, our clients helped Ken, Ruth, Lesley, and Nora bring two
more 1.6 MW
turbines online in this Iowa community.
Some sources, like wind power, most of the levelized cost of energy is in the capital cost, and so once you have the
turbine up, there is no incentive to limit its use, but there would perhaps be incentives to
build them in
more marginal locations.
With current subsidy methods, it costs around 3 cents / kWh of subsidy to get wind
turbines built [2011 update, I'm now hearing from insiders that
more like a 5 cents / kWh subsidy may be required].
When fossil fuel runs out, will it be possible to use the relative trickle of energy which comes from wind
turbines and solar panels to mine and fabricate the raw materials necessary to
build more solar panels and
more wind
turbines?
Seeker, what you say about solar panels and wind
turbines producing
more energy than it takes to
build and maintain them is a topic of hot dispute on the «Running on Empty, Oz» maiiling list.
My suspicion is that these first 500 will be
built by one of three companies — GE (NYSE: GE), Vestas (OTCBB: VWDRY), or Siemens (OTCBB: SIEGY)-- as these are the three major players in the wind
turbine space, and,
more importantly for this administration, they all have manufacturing facilities in the U.S.
Together, evolving our diet and eliminating food waste is
more impactful than
building more wind
turbines.
It is inevitable that in time our wind
turbines will wear out and our solar energy panels will degrade, after which it may not be possible to
build more.
Unlike traditional backup generators that run on diesel fuel, these natural gas
turbines offer a
more efficient solution and,
more importantly, ensure the utility avoids
building a new power plant.
The world has
built up at least a half a Trillion $ in opportunity costs (the price of all the much
more desirable and productive things we could have spent the money on) ratholing funds on biofuels, wind
turbines, solar systems and all those garden spot climate confabs for overpaid climate bureaucrats.
«In the process, we will put Americans to work in new jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced — jobs
building solar panels and wind
turbines; constructing fuel - efficient cars and
buildings; and developing the new energy technologies that will lead to even
more jobs,
more savings, and a cleaner, safer planet in the bargain,» Obama said Thursday in a speech at George Mason University.
Building combined cycle gas
turbine plants near users and recycling waste heat saves even
more money, reducing required costs by $ 25 per MWh versus the same technology
built remote from users.
The Acoustic Ecology Institute's «Wind Farm Noise 2011: Science and policy overview», compiled by Jim Cummings, makes the point that several Scandinavian studies have shown
turbine noise annoyance is notably higher in rural settings than in
more built up areas.
But
building offshore wind
turbines is both unpopular and significantly
more expensive.
No country, anywhere in the world, is abandoning wind power; most are
building exponentially
more and
more wind
turbines.
When asked to select from a variety of sources to help the state increase its energy supply,
more than 90 percent of the 949 Delaware residents responding to the survey supported an offshore wind option — in which whirling wind
turbines as tall as 40 - story
buildings would be erected off the coast to generate electricity — even if wind power were to add between $ 1 and $ 30 per month to their electric bills.
bearing in mind that only a small percentage of earths population have access to electricity, if we enabled all under developed countries in the world with fossil fuel electricity and heating systems, we would likely have to cover every sq inch of farmland in trees to combat climate change.rather than outright fighting the
building of wind
turbines (that in future times can be repaired at a fraction of the impact and pollution of replacing them) we should be putting pressure on the manufacturers of these systems and technologies to invest
more in finding green solutions to using the polluting chemicals in the construction of
turbines.
The shortage has been caused by the increase in the level of demand for energy combined with a growing tendency to
build wind
turbines, at the expense of other,
more reliable, electricity sources.
Older
turbines will need to be replaced
more quickly than the industry estimates while many
more will need to be
built onshore if the Government is to meet renewable energy targets by 2020.
I wonder if Pickles will block fracking rigs like he has solar farms and wind
turbines, or if he'll treat them like the housing estates being
built on green field sites (eg at the back of Anne Hathaways cottage in Stratford - upon - Avon — you don't get much
more «heritage» than that!).
Originally posted on rhymeafterrhyme: Tens of thousands of birds, many of them endangered species, are being killed by wind
turbines every year and as we
build more even
more will be killed.
Also, the fact remains,
more birds die from collisions with tall
buildings, windows, cars and power lines than wind
turbines.
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.
This will begin the process of identifying the infrastructure needs for
building out commercial - scale sites, including the optimal shipping needs for installing
turbines, efficient methods of maintenance, and developing
turbine manufacturing facilities, all of which will require testing and potentially
more research.
Build the Severn Barrage, build more offshore turbines, make it law for all new build houses to have a percentage of their roof area as PV / Solar heating, utilise our ri
Build the Severn Barrage,
build more offshore turbines, make it law for all new build houses to have a percentage of their roof area as PV / Solar heating, utilise our ri
build more offshore
turbines, make it law for all new
build houses to have a percentage of their roof area as PV / Solar heating, utilise our ri
build houses to have a percentage of their roof area as PV / Solar heating, utilise our rivers.
Shareholders including power tower pioneer Brightsource Energy as well as General Electric, which will provide the
turbine, want to
build more such towers around the world.
It is also true that China is
building far
more wind
turbines than any other nation on earth, and that China's per capita greenhouse gas production is way below that of Australia.
He has called for
building more nuclear and coal plants, ramping up the state's natural gas use, opening offshore oil and gas resources, as well as putting wind
turbines offshore and electric cars on its roads.
After
building more than 20,000 wind
turbine towers, why have Germany and Denmark been unable to close a single coal - fired power plant?
Over the last 15 years,
more than 900 wind
turbines were
built inside the range of the Portuguese wolf.
This includes owning 416 wind
turbines,
more than the total number of IKEA stores, in 12 countries and placing some 750,000 rooftop solar PV panels on its
buildings.
-- interesting argument however high - rise
buildings in our cities kill
more by a factor of 1000 X's than wind
turbines.
Supplanting the company's current 3.6 megawatt
turbines, these giant energy factories should make wind power
more economical, since the major cost of
building and installing offshore wind farms does not depend primarily on a
turbine's size, but on the number of them that need to be erected.