Sentences with phrase «land based wind»

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Not exact matches

Perth looks set to have its own indoor skydiving facility after Sydney - based leisure firm Indoor Skydive Australia announced it had signed an offer to lease a block of land in Belmont to construct a 4.2 - metre vertical wind tunnel.

The U.S. Department of Energy puts the drop at 64 per cent for utility - scale solar power and 41 per cent for land - based wind since 2008.

Mass Audubon submits comments on select land - based wind projects in Massachusetts and at the federal level with a focus on siting, impacts to protected land, habitat, and water resources.

Mass Audubon worked with the US Department of Fish and Wildlife in developing guidelines for land - based wind.

Industrial - scale wind projects off the coast of Massachusetts, as well as smaller community - scale, land - based wind projects, continue to be proposed.

He boasts of pushing through 5p plastic bag charges, but he should have stopped the banning of land - based wind turbines.

New York is ahead of most other states in wind - energy production and planning, ranking third in small land - based wind arrays and planning for potentially hundreds of offshore wind turbines over the next decade, the federal government said.

They are also seeking a way around the resistance to land - based and near - shore wind farms, like the finally approved Cape Wind project off Cape wind farms, like the finally approved Cape Wind project off Cape Wind project off Cape Cod.

Less famous than the Silk Road — its land - based parallel — the maritime web of commerce and cultural exchange operated on seasonal monsoon winds.

Though offshore structures are expensive, floating wind farms have advantages over their land - based relatives.

According to Archer and Jacobson's bottom - up estimates, which unlike Kleidon's are based on actual measurements of wind speeds, there is 1700 TW of wind power at an altitude of 100 metres over land and sea.

Washington, which produces farmed oysters, clams and mussels, is particularly vulnerable to acidification, for two reasons: seasonal, wind - driven upwelling events bring low - pH waters from the deep ocean towards the shore, and land - based nutrient runoff from farming fuels algal growth, which also lowers pH.

«At land - based wind farms, carcass surveys and long - term visual monitoring have been the typical ways of assessing collisions and mortality rates,» Albertani said.

Late yesterday afternoon, as Pope Francis» plane landed at Joint Base Andrews in the United States, Catholic cardinals and bishops who were part of the welcoming party stood calming their hefty robes as high winds probed and unsettled them.

The latest of these free packs has finally landed for the month of August, and it's filled with fan - service, with costumes and gear based on the Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Okami, Metroid and more.

Based on the edgy and explosive series by visionary director Nicolas Winding Refn (DRIVE), PUSHER stars Richard Coyle as a drug dealer who grows increasingly desperate over the course of a week after a botched deal lands him in the merciless clutches of a ruthless crime lord.

Pacific Coast Highway, railroad tracks of the Coast Line, and the US Highway 101 freeway wind along the narrow strip of the county's north coast land at the base of the mountains for 12 miles (19 km) north to the Santa Barbara County line.

Yes, there is the normal land - based stuff, but it's spread across an ocean canvas that's more Wind Waker than AC3.

«Wind Waker 2 would have taken place in a more land - based setting, rather than on the sea, so that we could have Link gallop across the land on a horse,» artist Satoru Takizawa stated (translated by Nintendo Everything).

«at 800 treefree ha for the solar (to match output from a 1600 MW nuclear, multiply that to 16,600 ha; the wind farm will require tree free land of 27,500 ha on the same basis.»

Land - based wind energy, which has already dropped by 30 percent in the last eight years, will continue to fall by 47 percent by 2040, the report says.

With these new wind turbines, over 43,000 megawatts (MW) of land - based wind potential currently exist in Mississippi.

Another facet of the reports on Victoria's taxpayers» heroism is that the demands on surface area are far from negligible, at 800 treefree ha for the solar (to match output from a 1600 MW nuclear, multiply that to 16,600 ha; the wind farm will require tree free land of 27,500 ha on the same basis.

Some 56 percent saw high potential for land - based wind farms, down from 62 percent last year.

Since then, there has been a flood of complaints from people who were unfortunate enough to find themselves living next to large land - based wind turbines elsewhere.

The law approving construction of a test centre of large land - based wind turbines near the Jutland town of Østerild was forced through parliament despite warnings about the effects it would have on the natural environment in the area and its impact on residents.

This story has been updated to clarify the net capacity of the Trident Winds project in relation to the capacity for a typical land - based wind turbine.

The typical land - based wind turbine has a capacity of 2 to 3 megawatts.

Wind energy's boosters say the costs of land - based wind projects have come down over the last three decades — «In the past six years, costs have come down two - thirds,» said Sopko — and believe offshore wind will follow the same pattWind energy's boosters say the costs of land - based wind projects have come down over the last three decades — «In the past six years, costs have come down two - thirds,» said Sopko — and believe offshore wind will follow the same pattwind projects have come down over the last three decades — «In the past six years, costs have come down two - thirds,» said Sopko — and believe offshore wind will follow the same pattwind will follow the same pattern.

Based on these admittedly crude estimations, at least 97 percent of the eagle deaths were attributable to causes other than commercial, land - based wind turbBased on these admittedly crude estimations, at least 97 percent of the eagle deaths were attributable to causes other than commercial, land - based wind turbbased wind turbines.

But none of the scenarios studied include any land - based wind, and none include a build - out of the federal offshore wind energy area Dominion bought the rights to, which could support at least 2,000 MW of offshore wind power.

Offshore wind facilities, which are currently not in operation in the United States but may become more common, require larger amounts of space because the turbines and blades are bigger than their land - based counterparts.

By contrast, a March 2013 study in the Wildlife Society Bulletin estimates that land - based wind turbines killed as many as 573,000 birds in 2012.

Employing best practices in planning and siting can help minimize potential land use impacts of offshore and land - based wind projects [4].

«The cost of land - based wind has fallen by two - thirds in six years and it is among the least - cost options for generating electricity in many parts of the country,» AWEA said.

Now, though, EnBW has dramatically expanded its wind energy operations, including both land - based and offshore wind farms.

Policies to replace fossil fuel - based electric generation with wind and solar generation necessitate massive land modification and habitat destruction.

These contracts finance and construct large renewable projects like land - based wind farms that have significant capital costs and require upgrades to transmission infrastructure.

Still, New England and New York have vast untapped solar, land - based wind, and offshore wind resources.

While the United States trails only China in land - based wind generating capacity, it has yet to install a single offshore turbine.

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New York can increase solar generation 20-fold and triple land - based wind generation.

The cost of land - based wind power, utility and distributed photovoltaic (PV) solar power, light emitting diodes (LEDs), and electric vehicles (EVs) has fallen by 41 % to as high as 94 % since 2008.

Local circumstances over land are local vegetation, traffic, heating,... Which with some precautions (upwind from the base, don't take flask samples with the wind in your back: exhaled air contains 20,000 ppmv CO2...) don't exist at the South Pole.

The Richmond - based utility already owns 2,600 acres, about 4 square miles, on or near the site of the East River Mountain wind farm and it wants to acquire more land for the project.

Since then, not a single land - based wind farm has been approved in Ohio.

But a 2009 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences estimates that Japan's land - based wind resources could provide half of its electricity.

Japan's best land - based wind resources are in northern and southern prefectures, whereas demand is highest in the middle of the country.

They will, Daniel said, consider issues such as: 1) AC versus high - voltage DC; 2) radial transmission systems versus a grid versus a backbone system that feeds into select onshore substations; 3) needed advances in technology; 4) operational methods that maximize efficiency; and 5) the impact of offshore wind on the land - based grid system.