Sentences with phrase «existing turbine towers»

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Rashidi's concept takes advantage of the city's existing water towers that were designed to hold thousands of pounds of water and thus could handle any forces the turbines exert, said Richard Steiner, who is working with Rashidi.

«These species are impacted by existing wind energy projects and threatened by potential projects primarily through collisions with wind turbines and associated power lines and towers, and through loss or modification of essential habitat,» said Hutchins.

Choppin, Delon and Menard's design uses existing infrastructure - the towers and pylons that dot the more than 157,000 miles of high voltage power lines in the U.S. - to locate their turbines, which can be stacked within already sited structures.

Most existing tidal currents devices have been based on horizontal axis propeller - type designs, much like wind turbines, mounted on fixed towers or on the sea - bed, sometimes with ducts to enhance the flow.