The end of subsidies
for older turbines, however, threatens countless wind farms.
Not exact matches
Problems with engine
turbine blades wearing out sooner than expected have hampered a restructuring programme prompted by the engineering company's declining
older engine programmes and plunging demand
for oil equipment.
The metals producer, more than 125 years
old, makes parts
for gas
turbines, the engines that plane manufacturers such as Boeing and Airbus install to give planes the power to get you to your next meeting.
Selected
for the inaugural Hyundai Commission
for the
Turbine Hall at London's Tate Modern, Abraham Cruzvillegas is a conceptual artist best known
for his work with found objects such as
old furniture, wood, bottles, plastic, hair and feathers.
Back in 1999 when the former Bankside power station was still a building site, its last galleries being painted and prepared
for the opening displays, cappuccino machines put in the cafes and the
Turbine Hall painted grey, Morris curated an exhibition at the
old Tate on Millbank (now Tate Britain) by legendary American artist Chris Burden.
It would be interesting - but probably impractical - to force developers to post a bond
for decommissioning
old turbines.
Research from NREL shows exceptionally good wind speeds
for utility - scale wind
turbines along the southern coast of St. Croix — including near the
old oil refinery.
It would take 7.35 of the
old 60 ft. blade diameter
turbines for each new 160 ft. blade diameter.
The correct ratio is 7.35 of the
old 60 ft. blade diameter
turbines for each new 160 ft. blade diameter.
Leave Climategate 2 alone Panorama last week and Stupid
old Prince Phillip and rising fuel bills Concentrate on the uneconomic cost of Wind
Turbines causing Fuel poverty and Julia Gillards Carbon Taxes etc etc use the recession to our advantage (and save a load of unessessary hardship
for people) Get our movement Real and back on track
Today a large number of Germany's 29,000 total
turbines nationwide are approaching 20 years
old and
for the most part they are outdated.
It is quite possible that wind
turbines will last longer than 25 years, but the technology is improving quickly and typical 25 - year -
old turbines have become obsolete, Salmon Beach, Esperance, WA,
for example, became obsolete in 15 years.
In Esperance, WA
for example, small,
old, out - dated
turbines have been replaced with bigger, newer ones; the capacity of the new wind farms (5600 kW) is much greater than the
old one (360 kW).
(Dunster was also architect
for BedZED) The Jubilee Wharf project in this
old Cornish town has a big zero in carbon emissions, four 6 Kw
turbines, and a wood pellet biomass boiler that burns «cleanly and efficiently what is effectively compacted rubbish.»
via Technology Review WATCH VIDEO: Deconstructed: How Wind
Turbines Work WATCH VIDEO: Renovation Nation: Wind
Turbines More Clean Energy Green Hornet: F / A -18 Super Hornet Fighter Plane Flies on 50/50 Biofuel Blend Amonix Claims 39 % Cell Efficiency
for Its Concentrating Photovoltaic Solar Panels Wind Farms Might Buy Your
Old Electric Car Batteries
A 15 - year -
old student in Oklahoma wrote to the North American Platform Against Windpower with questions about the negative aspects of wind
turbines for a Future Farmers of America project: