Not exact matches
Or now the Google X flying wind
turbine; it's so novel that we don't understand exactly
how it could have a
big, major transformative impact.
As the demand for sustainable energy rises, see
how the wind industry is responding by building
bigger and more powerful
turbine blades.
Don Roberts, the Senior Engineer with DNV Renewables, showed the workshop a picture of a gearbox — the
biggest source of
turbine operating problems and the source of more than a third of all O&M costs — and asked
how the crack in it could have been avoided or circumvented, «What can you do to limit cost and downtime?»
I don't understand
how people can be so concerned about birds becoming mush with modern wind
turbines, especially ones this
big.
And, no matter
how big the nameplate capacity, the power output of a wind
turbine with no wind is reliably, predictably and definitely zero.