Sentences with phrase «large turbines operate»

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However, over a turbine's operating life, the climate becomes a larger factor.

A small turbo operates at lower engine speeds and a larger turbine joins the party at higher speeds.

It operates with a larger turbine wheel so that the reengineered turbocharger can deliver a particularly large quantity of air.

Until the 1930s, hydroelectric - power plants equipped with water - turbine generating units produced the largest percentage of electric energy because they were less expensive to operate than thermal - power plants using steam - turbine units.

When properly maintained and operated, wind turbines can provide large amounts of electricity, cleanly and reliably, at prices competitive with any other new electricity source.

Workers of the Hamburg - based Nordex company were operating a large hoisting crane by remote control as it lifted the 60 - tonne wind turbine rotor assembly for mounting -LSB-...]

* 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:

Simple to deploy and operate, WindHelm is at the same time capable of providing the comprehensive services of a large - scale wind farm operations, maintenance and optimization control center across the range of turbine brands.

Given their potential to both drive down the cost of wind energy and increase the geographical range of feasible sites (floating turbines will be able to operate in much deeper waters than fixed - base turbines), wind energy advocates are beginning to look at larger scale deployment.

But they say tidal turbines like theirs «have much larger blade areas and can operate successfully in water flows between 1 and 2 m / s», with these lower - speed water flows being found «in a great many tidal areas of the world».