Sentences with phrase «building more wind turbines»

Together, evolving our diet and eliminating food waste is more impactful than building more wind turbines.

As the U.K. and other developed countries have rushed to build more wind turbines, they have naturally started with the windiest places, leaving poorer sites for later.

The «mitigation» planned is to shut down all of the fossil fueled power plants and build more wind turbines guaranteeing a spectacular failure leading to a significant loss of life.

By calculating the EROI of all the options, researchers have found that it can often be better to simply build more wind turbines or solar panels, or even transmission line to move power from somewhere where the sun is shining or the wind is blowing to somewhere where they're not, than to build storage.

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 yewind 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 yeWind, 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 yewind 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.

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 electricWind 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 electricwind farms being created that are connected to an electricity grid for the more widespread distribution of electricity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Photovoltaic systems, wind turbines, hydroelectric power stations are more efficient and cost effective at a larger scale than a single building.

Their surrogates held yet another dog and pony show for the press to tout the «necessity» of erecting more wind turbines, and clearing thousands of acres of Maine forest to build the costly transmission lines to get this electricity down to southern New England.

We have a surplus of energy and regularly pay the States to take our excess power off our hands, yet these no - brain Liberals are continuing to approve hundreds of more wind turbines to be built.

Building a wind turbine in your yard or installing solar panels on your roof requires a larger investment to begin with, but can end up saving more money in the long run, since you'll no longer have to purchase as much energy from utilities.

Then in 2016, Donald Trump offered a more general critique of wind energy noting that wind turbines are «killing all the eagles» despite studies showing that tall buildings, like those built by real estate developers such as Mr. Trump, cause much higher rates of bird mortality than wind turbines do.

The Nordex turbine (photo on the right) was the first wind turbine of more than a few kilowatts capacity to be built in South Australia.

Once built the wind farm will make this section of the Heysen Trail much more popular because it will present an opportunity for people to walk a dedicated walking trail close to, and among, a group of modern wind turbines.

It is possible to build wind turbines without rare earth elements, but doing so increases the complexity, decreases reliability, and jacks the generator weight up, which in turn means all the support structures have to be more massive, all of which results in higher cost.

That's the biggest purchase of wind power equipment for land - based turbines (offshore prices are higher because of the extra complexity of building the turbines — but once built, they produce more power).