Sentences with phrase «for turbine towers»

DTE says the process of getting local approvals and signing long - term leases for turbine towers can take two to three years.

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Last week, for instance, President Obama headed to Newton, Iowa, to highlight a company making towers for wind turbines in a factory originally built for Maytag.

Pecans.com acquired three different companies to complement its own business: Texas Collectible Tins, which makes specialty tins for packing pecans; Turbine, a wholesaler of hummingbird feeders and nut - gathering tools; and E-Z Tower, a maker of deer blind tower bracTower, a maker of deer blind tower bractower brackets.

Electricity generated by the rotors travels down the tether, eliminating the need for the massive cement towers holding traditional wind turbines.

The company expects to have a prototype of the new crane within a year, in time for the launch of its V112 three - megawatt turbine, which will have heavier components and require a crane with a stronger arm than the current Tower Crane has.

The plan for Vestas's next - generation Tower Crane is for it to be able to work with several of the company's different turbine models with only minor modifications.

After testing the technology on a tower built at one - fifth scale (compared with a normal turbine tower), Scottish Enterprise is now looking for partners to turn the prototype Orangutan into a climbing machine that can be commercialized.

the concept is versatile and towers can be tailored for any turbine size or even a height beyond 100 meters.

Which of three ways to connect the columns and panels works best for wind turbine towers?

And so, Sritharan and Schmitz watched as Doug Wood, engineering specialist and manager of Iowa State's Structural Engineering Research Laboratory, typed in the commands for the lab's hydraulic equipment to push or pull with bigger loads on a full - size test segment of a 100 - meter concrete wind turbine tower.

The goal was to test three column - and - panel segments for the expected loads at the top of a turbine tower.

«Engineers design, test taller, high - strength concrete towers for wind turbines.»

Taller towers also allow for longer turbine blades.

The «Living Tower» design seen here is complete with solar panels, a rainwater purification system, and two large wind turbines on top for energy production.

«Concrete for taller wind turbine towers passes tests, could help expand wind energy nationwide.»

The researchers have also tested a full - scale, cross-section of a tower cell for operational loads and extreme loads for a 2.3 megawatt Siemens turbine.

And at 11:08 A.M. local time Wednesday, this concentrated light heated steam in those towers to turn a turbine — the first «power towers» in the U.S. to convert the sun's heat into electricity for commercial use.

Every year, vehicle collisions account for about 14 million bird deaths, communication towers 221,000, and wind energy turbines kill about 45,000.

Projects featured include House (1993) a monumental cast of a nineteenth - century terrace house in the East End of London for which she won Britain's Turner Prize, the Water Tower (1998) which graced the skyline of downtown New York, Vienna's Holocaust Memorial (2000), Monument (2001) created for the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square, and Embankment (2005 - 2006) installed in the Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall.

And in its dramatic Turbine Hall, the sense is that anything could be given house room if it deserved it — from Louise Bourgeois's towers (I Do, I Undo, I Redo, 2000; her tremendous steel spider had to wait outside) to Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project in 2003 or Rachel Whiteread's Embankment (2005)-- heaped white boxes, like sugar lumps for giants.

The first of the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall commissions went to Paris born Louise Bourgeois for three steel towers, entitled «I Do, I Undo and I Redo».

One of her most celebrated projects was I Do, I Undo, I Redo, an installation comprising three nine - metre - high steel towers which she was commissioned to create for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern to mark the opening of that museum in 2000.

For instance, since no U.S. ship was capable of hoisting the 400 - ton nacelles, or generators, 330 feet to the tops of the Block Island turbine towers, Deepwater Wind had to lease a Norwegian vessel to do the job.

The Ballarat Courier announced on 2012/03/25 that the 48 air navigation lights on the turbine towers were going to be switched off following decisions from the Civil Aviation Authority and Minister for Planning Matthew Guy.

Decades before wind turbines came on to the scene wildlife biologists routinely used daily searches when looking for carcasses around communication towers.

Our mission statement is «Safe Work in Wind Turbines» with our focus and value statement explaining that «through high - quality safety products and solutions for wind - turbine towers, we help our customers make wind energy more cost competitive.»

For example, construction company SOM sculptured the 309 - metre - tall Pearl River Tower in China so it directs wind to in - built turbines that generate energy for the buildiFor example, construction company SOM sculptured the 309 - metre - tall Pearl River Tower in China so it directs wind to in - built turbines that generate energy for the buildifor the building.

SICA, TecnoAranda SL and Haizea Wind aim to start producing towers for wind turbines at the end of this year, with an annual capacity of 130 pieces, Esperanza Día por Día reports.

Small tower turbines have been stippling Midwest horizons for at least 80 years.

Wind generator: AirCon 10 kW wind turbine (on a 115 foot tower) generates 3 - 4 times more electricity than is needed for the household.

That meant a surge of tower and rooftop turbines on the market, and a whole bunch of new consumers who had no idea about what sort of turbine might work for their home.

Iowa Code § 427B.26 allows counties, by ordinance, to provide for the special valuation of wind energy conversion property, which includes all wind farm facilities, including the wind charger, windmill, wind turbine, tower and electrical equipment, pad mount transformers, power lines and substation.

«For decades, wind turbines have required cranes and huge towers to lift a few hundred feet off the ground where winds can be slow and gusty,» explained Ben Glass, Chief Executive Officer of Altaeros, a company led by alumni of Harvard and MIT.

Solar reactors don't need the big turbine or generator for making electricity, but only consist of a tower, a solar field, a receiver and the reaction chamber.

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The hot temperature solar steam input may be of the order of 550C (823K) for a power tower (250C for parabolic trough), compared to 1500 C (1773 K) for the GE / MHI turbines.

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In an electrical storm wind turbines will be hit by lightning just as communication towers and power transmission pylons have been struck by lightning for decades.

In other Michigan communities targeted for wind development, a property owner who leases land to a developer gets annual payments of around $ 9,000 to $ 14,000 for allowing a turbine tower.

Photovoltaic systems use conducting material to convert sunlight directly to electricity and need only nominal amounts of water to wash their solar panels, compared with the traditional steam - turbine solar that uses much larger volumes of water for cooling towers.

For a 200 ton tower, that could mean a weight savings of 6 - 10 tons and that weight savings translates into cost savings for manufacturing and transporting wind turbinFor a 200 ton tower, that could mean a weight savings of 6 - 10 tons and that weight savings translates into cost savings for manufacturing and transporting wind turbinfor manufacturing and transporting wind turbines.

As this process occurs after the air passes through the wind turbines the Solar Tower would generate most of the electricity needed for the integrated plant.

So perhaps it's time to up the ante, and move past the towering turbines, as iconic as they may be for the clean energy revolution.

This was just 28 2.5 MW turbines and searches for carcasses amounted to about 56 % of a 50 distance from towers.

They built and have given tours of their eco-friendly home where a 15 - kilowatt turbine atop an 80 - foot tower generates about 80 percent of their electricity; the former demonstration unit, which cost only about $ 10,000, paid for itself in 10 years.

But as a taster, there were 104 offshore wind - turbine tower - support designs competing for support in the Carbon Trusts Offshore Wind Accelerator programme, which runs until 2014.

Hydro - Gen, based in France, have produced a low - cost low - maintenance floating marine or river - current energy - converter system, mounted under a platform supported by a catamaran, with a slide - able turbine and generator unit that can be raised out of the water for maintenance on a tower, and which can also be folded down for transport by truck.

• Edom Hill Wind Farm, Cathedral City, CA Client: BP Alternative Energy, 3/2008 — 8/2008 Scope: $ 11.6 M BOP contract included decommissioning of (139) aging WindMatic Turbines for resale, removal of 8 met towers and overhead collector system.