Sentences with phrase «from turbine towers»

Summary of Wind Turbine Incidents (December 2008): • 41 Worker Fatalities, 16 Public - Includes falling from turbine towers and transporting turbines on the highway.

«On the largest turbines, researchers continue to use an undersized 75 - meter search radius, even though the much larger turbines are known to catapult birds and bats much further from turbine towers.

It is possible that, if the eagle was hit by an ascending turbine blade, it could have been thrown this far; however, research by Dr Cindy Hull in Tasmania has indicated that wedge - tailed eagles are most often hit by descending turbine blades and that they rarely, if ever, fall as far as 180m from a turbine tower (it is possible that the eagle could have been dragged by a large scavenger).

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Blade by blade, section by section of tower housings and foundations, the pieces that will make up 36 giant wind turbines in Chautauqua County are lumbering down county and state highways, a U.S. highway and an interstate, from Hamburg to Arkwright.

A massive wind turbine — capable of turning the breeze into two million watts of power — has 40 - meter - long blades made from fiberglass, towers 90 meters above the ground, weighs hundreds of metric tons, and fundamentally relies on roughly 300 kilograms of a soft, silvery metal known as neodymium — a so - called rare earth.

Offshore wind turbines will line the Atlantic coast; vast solar arrays will cover swaths of the southwestern desert; transmission towers will cradle high - voltage direct current lines and take electricity from the windy Great Plains to the populated coasts.

Blown generators, misbehaving gearboxes and damaged rotors keep turbines from maximizing the energy they draw from nature, raising the question of how to reliably maintain dozens of mammoth towers, some of which rise more than 100 meters above the ground.

The Vestas Tower Crane, still in the prototype phase, is designed to attach to a cable lowered down from a small crane located inside the turbine tower's nacelle (the cover housing the wind turbine's generator and gearbox) and hoisted upTower Crane, still in the prototype phase, is designed to attach to a cable lowered down from a small crane located inside the turbine tower's nacelle (the cover housing the wind turbine's generator and gearbox) and hoisted uptower's nacelle (the cover housing the wind turbine's generator and gearbox) and hoisted upward.

Could concrete towers be a practical way to raise turbine towers from today's 80 meters to the steadier winds at 100 meters and taller?

The 19 - megawatt tower will be the first in the world to use a mixture of molten salts to transfer heat from the receiver on top of the tower to a heat exchanger where steam to drive the turbines is generated.

The boldness and enormity of the Turbine Hall took the art world by storm, from the opening moment when Louise Bourgeois's complex towers were unleashed upon an unsuspecting public.

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.

Turbine exhaust steam condensing (to renew the Rankine cycle) conventionally involves wet cooling, where cooling water from the shell - and - tube steam condensers is sprayed into cooling towers, and an updraft carries vapor from evaporative cooling into the atmosphere.

Each Vestas turbine tower section travels from the factory to the wind farm site by way of train, truck, boat, or any combination of the three.

Floating wind turbines can be placed away from the coast in deeper water as they don't need to be anchored to sea floor - mounted towers, which are typically limited to a water depth of up to 260 ft (80 m).

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.

He said wind turbines have disrupted the service from Lismore Cooperative Telephone Co.'s wireless broadband connection on the Wilmont water tower.

«While longer blades may allow project developers to produce more energy from their turbines, they will also require bigger towers to support them.

Researchers are working on high - frequency noise generators that would be audible to bats and drive them away from wind turbines, ultraviolet lights to illuminate towers and repel bats, and behavioral studies that would help the industry fine - tune when it should feather turbines.

Dr. Mason cites evidence that many small turbines have collapsed in close proximity to human dwellings [1; 2; 3], and recently two big Danish wind turbines lost blades and scattered sharp pieces of glass fiber up to 500 meters from the tower base in high winds [4.].

The bill also increases from 10 percent to 15 percent the amount of power that utilities must get from renewable sources, which could mean hundreds of additional industrial wind turbine towers in rural communities.

Turbine towers could not be taller than 500 feet from base to blade tip, and they could not emit noise greater than 45 decibels at the property line.

Turbines and towers are typically painted light grey or off - white to help them blend into the sky, reducing visual impacts from the shore.

Ranging from small - scale turbine units on the sea floor to large - scale turbines on vertical towers or suspended from boats, tidal current exploitation technology is still very much in the infant stage of development.

No electronics, or chemical battery, and when power is needed water can be released from a water tower to generate current with some kind of turbine.

With the average cost of a 10kW small - scale wind turbine on a 100 - foot tower in the range of $ 45,000 to $ 60,000 (before state and federal incentives), pouring through the pages of Power from the Wind make this book a wise first investment.

As a result, bird mortality from collisions is escalating every year, especially in areas where turbines and their associated power lines and towers have been poorly sited from the perspective of bird conservation.

Power from the Wind covers every aspect of small - scale wind energy systems, from an initial site assessment to wind turbine towers, from inverters to batteries, should an owner decide to create an off - grid or grid - intertied system with a battery backup.

Yesterday, a South Australian Department of Environment and Heritage officer collected the remains of a juvenile wedge - tailed eagle from the base of one of the Waterloo wind farm turbine towers.

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The authors of the study estimate that all bird fatalities from wind turbines range from 214,000 to 368,000 annually — a small fraction compared with the estimated 6.8 million fatalities from collisions with cell and radio towers, 1.4 to 3.7 billion fatalities from cats, and of the many other, much larger threats that birds face today.

There are environmental costs in mining and smelting the steel from which wind turbine towers are made.

Arrays of wind turbines and other components including foundations, towers, underground cables (used to collect the power from the individual turbines), step - up transformers, and switchgear connected through a single point to the transmission grid; group of wind turbines interconnected to a common utility system

Once the cables are attached, the water is pumped back out again, allowing the turbine to rise, tightening the cables, and preventing the turbine from bobbing up and down, yet allowing some lateral movement that would help cushion the impact of storm waves on the tower.

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

In other word if a turbine blade is 50 meters then over 90 % of the carcasses will be found beyond 50 meters from towers.

«Energy production relies on mechanical engineers to design, build and maintain structures and systems that collect, contain and transmit vast amounts of energy, from wind turbine blades, gearboxes and towers to high pressure boilers and nuclear reactors.»