Sentences with phrase «damaged a wind turbine»

Wind and or lightning Tuesday night into Wednesday damaged a wind turbine on the Hog Creek Wind Farm near Dola.

It seems that not a single wind turbine was damaged in the exceptional storms of late September and late December 2016 (had there been any, the media would have made sure that everyone knew about it; a damaged wind turbine is highly conspicuous — impossible to hide).

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So who cares how long the lease is, especially when Murphy's Law and its corollaries are funded: to remove the Wind Turbines when they become obsolete due to the next era's energy resource being perfected, damages during construction, etc..

According to Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson, offshore wind turbines could reduce onshore damage from hurricanes without sustaining significant damage themselves.

Texas experienced blackouts in February 2011, as colder - than - average winter weather simultaneously increased demand for electricity and damaged coal - fired power plants and wind turbines.

Researchers found the extreme wind speeds they modeled would cause structural damage to wind turbines and possible failure of turbine parts.

The proposed technique, previously used for detecting damaged surface areas on underwater marine structures such as bridge piers, off - shore wind turbine platforms and pipe - lines was applied to histopathology images of breast cells.

If the wind blows too hard, the wind turbines have to be shutdown to keep from damaging the machine or overloading the power grid.

Apart from the science there are a number of common sense reasons to accept that wind turbines damage nobody's health.

This is also consistent with how he is perceived by others who are also actively engaged in the same dishonest activities of denying the known adverse health impacts of wind turbine acoustic emissions; known to the wind industry and acousticians to cause damage to health via «annoyance» symptoms including sleep disturbance and body vibrations for nearly thirty years, since the work undertaken by Dr Neil Kelley et al in collaboration with NASA and a number of research organisations and wind turbine manufacturers.

The evidence proving the unnecessary damage done to wind farm neighbours by the noise generated by giant industrial wind turbines is mounting by the day: Germany's Max Planck Institute has identified sub-audible infrasound as the cause of stress, sleep disruption and more (see our post here); and a Swedish group have shown that it's the -LSB-...]

German television has broadcast images of the damaged Adwen M5000 turbine at the 60MW Alpha Ventus offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

It is also clear that the original widely publicised complaint to the NHMRC and AHPRA alleging professional and research misconduct, was done for precisely the same reasons by those within public health and wind industry circles in Australia who were unhappy with the attention the issue of health damage from wind turbine noise was attracting.

I got a call that a semi-truck had been damaged by ice throw from a wind turbine on Highway 13, south of Hartland.

As for the prominently featured wind turbines and solar arrays — these are a blatant attempt to push the expensive, environmentally damaging, inefficient renewables to which green shysters like Gore are ideologically committed but which will make no difference to climate change.

As the film shows, ironically, in high winds the turbines must be stopped because they are easily damaged.

From the dataset, they also characterized the frequency of winds exceeding three critical speeds: 4, 12, and 25 m / s — the speeds at which a typical turbine starts producing power, is most efficient, and needs to shut down to avoid damage to the motor, respectively.

Having trouble posting this comment fer some reason... Wind turbines are also designed so that the blades lock down in windspeeds above 16MPH, to prevent the blades being damaged (or destroyed.)

... Construction of a few wind turbines in Arctic villages won't stop climate change and can't undo much of the damage the fossil fuel economy has already done here.

The slaughter of millions of birds and bats annually by US wind turbines is a case in point, and when the impacts are considered in the context of the minimal energy produced via these «renewable» technologies, the damage is especially egregious.

It is important to note, however, that wind turbines are not the only source of this health damaging sound energy, as Rick James's paper makes clear.

We are hoping for a complete halt to the ongoing damage of the government's policies, and that there will be help for people already living with the noise and other impacts of industrial - scale wind turbines.

As Shaun Spiers of the Campaign to Protect Rural England has remarked, wind turbines «risk becoming the redundant relics of our compulsion to do something», even if the something is damaging and counter-productive.»

When making the donation, Macfie claimed science had been damaged by «environmental activism» and wrote, «the crucifix has been replaced by the wind turbine».

There has been real public concern that inappropriately sited onshore wind turbines have been harmful to the local environment and have damaged heritage for miles around.

Documentation of damaging health effects of wind turbines since 1981 Research from NASA, Cornell University, MIT and many others

The wake of a turbine is a region of lower wind speed and increased turbulence that reduces the power output and increases damaging loads on downwind turbines in its path.

The evidence proving the unnecessary damage done to wind farm neighbours by the noise generated by giant industrial wind turbines is mounting by the day: Germany's Max Planck Institute has identified sub-audible infrasound as the cause of stress, sleep disruption and more (see our post here); and a Swedish group have shown that it's the pulsing -LSB-...]

The CPREs report «Generating light on landscape impacts: How to accommodate onshore wind while protecting the countryside», calls on the government to provide more clarity on the total number of onshore wind turbines it expects will be installed, and wants the capacity of the landscape to accommodate wind turbines «without unacceptable damage» to be formally taken into account in planning decisions.

A new opportunity, a source of local employment, increased income for the farmers who are hosting the wind turbines, a source of finance for community development and a local asset that can show the world that the people in this area are proud to be a part of the necessary change to renewable energy and away from the damaging use of fossil fuels.

Computer simulations by Professor Mark Z. Jacobson have shown that offshore wind farms with thousands of wind turbines could have sapped the power of three real - life hurricanes, significantly decreasing their winds and accompanying storm surge, and possibly preventing billions of dollars in damages.

NDR German public television reported on the damaged Adwen M5000 turbine at the 60MW Alpha Ventus offshore North Sea wind farm off the northern coast of Germany.

I believe it is true that there has been very serious environmental damage due to rare earth mining in China, but wind turbines are by no means the only use for rare earth minerals; they have become very widely used in the modern world.

On 2012/03/21 a wind turbine at Wonthaggi Wind Farm in western Gippsland, Victoria, was damaged by lightning, apparently resulting in a blade being browind turbine at Wonthaggi Wind Farm in western Gippsland, Victoria, was damaged by lightning, apparently resulting in a blade being broWind Farm in western Gippsland, Victoria, was damaged by lightning, apparently resulting in a blade being broken.

The wind turbines are placed to the rear on a boom that may be raised and lowered according to weather conditions, to avoid shading the solar arrays for most of the daily operation cycle and to avoid damage that may be caused by storms.

This cap is there to protect the wind turbines themselves so that they aren't damaged by high winds.

The government and lobbying association CanWEA's (Canadian Wind Energy Association) assertion that the wind turbine industry operates safely and without damage to human health is false and must also be examined, since the reports of ill health given to the MOE (Environment) now number in the thousaWind Energy Association) assertion that the wind turbine industry operates safely and without damage to human health is false and must also be examined, since the reports of ill health given to the MOE (Environment) now number in the thousawind turbine industry operates safely and without damage to human health is false and must also be examined, since the reports of ill health given to the MOE (Environment) now number in the thousands.

They are seeking an interim injunction to stop all wind turbines within 2 km of their home, without having to prove that the turbines will cause them serious harm, and without providing the usual undertaking as to damages.