Sentences with phrase «giant wind turbines»

But towering over all was a vast number of giant wind turbines.

(Weld, Maine) Opponents of building giant wind turbines in Maine's remote wilderness are deploying effective tactics that have chased wind capital out of the state, according to Jeremy Payne, executive director of the Maine Renewable Energy Association.

And many residents are up in arms over the prospect of seeing their scenic ridges marred by giant wind turbines.

They illustrate very plainly what it really requires to erect an industrial complex of giant wind turbines on the top of any mountain.

Giant wind turbines clutter the once - pristine sight lines of ridgetops; vast solar farms soak up rays in the desert, blotting out the landscape and impacting habitat; and deep uranium mines dot northern Canada with environmental effects matching any other resource - extraction enterprise, like tar sands.

PULLMAN, Wash. — How many giant wind turbine blades can your local landfill accommodate?

Demand is not as sexy as giant wind turbine platforms being towed out to sea or strung up on steel kites into the upper atmosphere, but demand side effciences are faster, less costly, and more effective.

When you drive past an area one day where you observe hundreds and hundreds of giant wind turbines slowly turning, then on the next day you drive...

Feeling the heat from outraged constituents, the Tazewell Board of Supervisors recently passed a zoning ordinance banning «tall structures,» a category that includes giant wind turbines.

This petition process might be one of the most effective tactics to date in the long fight to keep giant wind turbines from ruining Maine's most pristine mountains and wild areas.

Bruce Parker — Vermont Watchdog — October 2, 2015 In a stinging rebuke of Vermont's most prominent wind developer, Irasburg residents packed Town Hall Thursday night and voted 274 - 9 against hosting giant wind turbines on a nearby ridgeline in sight of local neighborhoods.

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.

Latvian company Aerones has developed an innovative way to not only extend the lifespans of giant wind turbines, but keep them running at optimum efficiency for as long as possible.

Three months after its nuclear exit, the company announced plans to install 80 giant wind turbines in the North Sea, enough to power 300,000 households and cut carbon emissions by 815,000 tons a year.

The giant wind turbines cropping up on ridges, shorelines and other windy locales across the world affect more than the wind — they are also changing local temperatures, notes a new study.

Approaching the town proper, some of these giant wind turbines can already be seen from the highway.

The exhibition So Watt, du design dans l'énergie (some design regarding energy) in France currently hosts two of Positiveflow's projects: In Luce (top image), interesting information about the illumination in architecture and Liberty (bottom image), a provocative concept design idea that consist of giving the Statue of Liberty a giant wind turbine to hold in her raised arm.

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Giant wind turbines are awesome - looking, appealing to all ages.

Giant wind turbines a dozen or so miles off the Atlantic coast have great potential to cost - effectively produce massive amounts of emissions - free electricity.

Tidal - power partisans praise its reliability and easiness on the eyeâ $» in contrast with the giant wind turbines near some New England tourist havensâ $» and note that over half of Americaâ $ ™ s electricity is used in states that border on the ocean.

North American Platform Against Windpower stands with the groups around the world protesting the harmful construction of giant wind turbines.

On the eve of the climate talks, more than 150 people formed the shape of a giant wind turbine in front of the European Parliament in Brussels, to call for more support for community renewable energy projects.

Damien Rice is in a race against time to get a giant wind turbine — which has no planning permission — demolished.

Margaret Wente — Globe and Mail — November 24, 2014 All over Ontario, giant wind turbines are sprouting up across the rural landscape and ruining people's lives.

From Global Wind Energy — the Human Impact Wind Turbine Battle Erupts Again in Fairhaven, MA Click here to watch video and read article by ABC6 Investigative Reporter Mark Curtis Underneath the giant wind turbines in Fairhaven the whirring sound is unmistakable.

The Alliance to Protect Prince Edward County will also be making a presentation on the potential health impacts from the environmental noise produced by the giant wind turbines.