Sentences with phrase «large number of turbines»

Many experts attribute this large number of fatalities to unique aspects of wind power development in northern California, such as the unusually large number of turbines (over 5,000), the type of turbines in the region, and the presence of abundant raptor prey in the area.

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While this dwarfs the number of turbines in other countries, the energy demand of such a large nation is significantly higher.

But neighbors quickly rallied against the proposal, citing, in part, the possible risk of fire if the turbine were installed in the middle of the woods and the large number of birds in the nature preserve surrounding the lake.

«Wind turbines generate electricity by removing energy from the wind, so a larger number of wind turbines should result in a slowdown of the winds in the lower atmosphere,» Mechem said.

What happens to the wind when a larger number of wind turbines removes more and more of the energy of atmospheric motion?

Other possible applications CVT design by BitRaptor are: bicycles, motorcycles, cars, boats, gearboxes, electric motors, steam and wind turbine, as well as a large number of industrial or agriculture applications whenever is necessary some adjustment of the gear ratio.

On his first site visit after having been invited to undertake the fifth Turbine Hall commission, Nauman remembers that «a number of large Henry Moore pieces were arranged on the floor beyond the bridge.

Sculptures and Site - Specific Installations Kapoor has produced a large number of works including Taratantara (1999, Baltic Flour Mills in Gateshead, England), a 35 - metre tall piece; and Marsyas (2002) a gigantic work of steel and PVC that was installed in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern Gallery in London (see below).

Indeed, if large numbers of wind turbines can be grouped together, this can be done in an extremely efficient way.

A problem with putting large numbers of wind turbines together in one place is that many people regard them as a serious environmental blight.

General Electric ranks number one in U.S. wind turbine sales and is actually one of the largest suppliers of wind turbines in the world, boasting more than 11,600 wind turbine installations that comprise more than 18,000 megawatts of capacity.

Despite the large number of wind turbines coming online this year, WindEurope predicts that the continent will see another record amount connected to the grid in 2019.

In China, efforts to deploy large numbers of wind turbines are justified not only as helping with energy security, but also as providing a foundation for a strategic export industry.

For example, project planners identify areas likely or known to be used by large numbers of bats and consideration is given to potential habitat impacts when deciding where to place wind turbines.

* The large number of 660 kV wind turbines operating at the ambitious capacity factor of 35 % that would be required to provide an equivalent number of kilowatt - hours of electricity (ignoring the intermittent availability of wind energy); specifically:

U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) officials estimate the wind turbines will kill between 46 and 64 golden eagles each year, plus a larger number -LSB-...]

Today a large number of Germany's 29,000 total turbines nationwide are approaching 20 years old and for the most part they are outdated.

Two neighborhoods in Sweden's third - largest city, Malmö, will try out a number of small - scale rooftop wind turbines this fall to see which type of wind - driven device will get the most bang for the buck, while not bothering the neighbors with too much noise.

With the weather conditions at sea, where strong winds constantly blow on the water's surface on most of the days of the year, and the technology rapidly becoming cheaper, hopes are springing that offshore wind turbines alone could cover well over 12 percent of the power consumption of the world's fourth largest economy by 2030 — meaning that the number of turbines would have to rise considerably from the roughly 1,200 in operation at the end of 2017.