Sentences with phrase «generating power»

Under normal circumstances, wind turbine blades are left to turn slowly in the wind until they reach «cut - in speed,» the point at which they're spinning fast enough to begin generating power.

In Australia it is unusual for a single wind farm to go so long as a day without generating power, let alone all the wind farms in a state or the nation.

As far as other alternative energy is concerned, generating power from wave action or tidal flow is tempting the UK, although they lead only in offshore wind power generation so far, just ahead in production from Denmark.

EVs will recharge when renewable energy sources are generating power and wholesale prices are low, thus helping the system adapt to intermittent solar and wind.

The Collgar Wind Farm, which started generating power in May 2011 and became fully operational in October 2011 doubled WA's installed wind power capacity (see the graph at Operating WA wind farms).

The total capacity for the world's wind farms, now generating power in about 80 countries, is near 240,000 megawatts.

Producing electricity from the burning of wood, or biomass, has long been viewed as an environmentally friendly way of generating power.

The trip will take one - thousandth of a second during which the light's energy is amplified many billions of times to create a brief laser pulse 1,000 times the electric generating power of the United States.

European utilities are now finding that generating power from coal is a profitable gambit.

reports the towers are rarely generating power.

Lochbaum, the director of the nuclear safety project at the Union of Concerned Scientists, an advocacy group, said the challenge of replacing Indian Point had more to do with transmission of existing power than generating power.

Far better to leave the cells at home, on the roof, generating power whenever the sun's shining and feeding that power to the grid...

Ramping that up significantly requires years of lead time to build factories & equipment... it doesn't seem unreasonable to think that the time & cost to do all this, and get say 100 GWatts of solar panels out there generating power, is going to be much different from that needed to build 100 nuclear plants.»

Ramping that up significantly requires years of lead time to build factories & equipment... I've never seen a study that didn't betray an obvious bias, but it doesn't seem unreasonable to think that the time & cost to do all this, and get say 100 GWatts of solar panels out there generating power, is going to be much different from that needed to build 100 nuclear plants.

Efforts are ongoing to improve capacity for generating power locally using renewable resources and addressing waste disposal challenges through composting — both potentially cost - saving as well as environmentally responsible, especially in Katmai's far off - the - grid Alaska setting.

The dividend generating power of WD - 40 is essentially unchanged from 2001 - 2016.

3) Capital generating power.

I don't say any of this to brag, but to rather show you the awesome income - generating power of a carefully selected «10 % Trade.»

We've worked with many successful business owners, entrepreneurs and coaches who discovered the lead generating power of publishing their own book which position's them as THE key person of influence in their industry.

The hybrid system conserves fuel consumption by running at optimum engine speeds, generating power to run an electric motor turning the wheels, and storing excess power in a small battery pack to be used when the engine is not running.

It instead uses two motors for driving and generating power.

A separate screen shows a diagram of the various components and which are generating power, including the regenerative brakes charging the batteries.

ELECTRIC DRIVE, VOLTEC (149 hp [111 kW] motoring power, 273 lb - ft of torque [370 N - m] motoring torque, 74 hp [55 kW] generating power)(STD)

The uprated AMG 6.3 - liter V8 engine generating a power output of 622 hp and 468 lb - ft of torque is a synonym for thrilling driving dynamics, making the 2014MY SLS AMG Black Series the most powerful AMG high - performance automobile with a combustion engine.

Electric drive, Voltec (149 hp [111 kW] motoring power, 273 lb - ft of torque [370 N - m] motoring torque, 74 hp [55 kW] generating power)

Unfortunately, all cylinders are hard - joined to crankshaft and engine momentum is too high to stall immediately (as other cylinders are still making explosions and generating power), crankshaft usually disjoints from cylinder and damages some random part of engine by breaking hole in it, turning engine into junk.

Battle ropes are a great tool for increasing your conditioning, strength, and even generating power.

-- Next, breathe out, and power your torso back upwards, generating power from your triceps, until your body is back in the starting position.

Allows you to deliver the club to the impact position, generating power and club head speed, resulting in increased distance.

(April 17, 2018) The Research and Development (R&D) Office is seeking your expertise and experience to address the Bureau of Reclamation's many challenges associated with managing water and generating power in the West.

In addition to generating power, the HST must be able to talk with controllers on the ground to relay data and receive commands for its next targets.

Therefore, power generators and grid operators need back - up capacity that can fill the generation gap that results when these intermittent sources are unavailable and that also can be scaled back when intermittent sources are generating power.

The old chestnut of generating power from footfalls is back again (5 November 2016, p 23).

«PV project developers rushed to Spain because subsidies guaranteed returns well above the cost of generating power,» explains Nathaniel Bullard, a solar associate at New Energy Finance.

In the 1970s and 1980s there were several such tubes that actually ruptured, and nuclear operators have employed patches to keep damaged steam generators in service (although this cuts down on the efficiency in generating power).

They point out that Japan and Germany have already begun civilian research programmes devoted to exploring the potential of laser fusion for generating power.

«The elegance of the solar business is that you construct a product and it just sits there generating power for 20 to 25 years,» says company president, Bruce Sohn.

The tides, some say, have the potential to light five percent of the nation's homes — nearly nine gigawatts of generating power.

He said that the notion of generating power by burning algae had been around for at least a decade.

And while it will likely never be as ubiquitous as wind and solar, it is more predictable — a highly desirable trait for utilities looking for carbon - free baseload generating power.

Eventually, studying 3 - D knotted magnetic fields like those potentially present in ball lightning might help scientists devise better ways to control plasmas within future fusion reactors for generating power, the researchers suggest.

In the town of Argonne - West stands a reactor that represents one of the most ambitious attempts to incorporate transmutation of actinides into the business of generating power.

Dry farm waste, such as wood chips or sawdust, is easier to use for generating power.

This month, Finland's Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor was supposed to begin generating power, a tangible sign of the revival of the nuclear industry outside of Asia after nearly 30 years of no new construction because of accidents, cost - overruns and other issues.

Among their uses in a variety of specialized applications: generating power on space probes and cooling seats in fancy cars.

After an absence of nearly 30 years, the Obama administration has announced that a 6.3 kilowatt photovoltaic installation of the «typical size for an American house,» is back on the White House roof and generating power.

We had these three machines in the water and generating power to the grid in 2008,» said Carcas.

Update: Japan has successfully deployed the IKAROS sail, and its solar cells are generating power.

Ulster town officials this week revealed that their request to extend the public comment period on a proposed 20 - megawatt electric - generating power plant had been denied by the project's developer, Lincoln Park DG LLC.

In total, however, Wyoming County has four wind farms with 237 turbines generating power, according to the Wyoming County Business Center.