Sentences with phrase «larger turbine towers»

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Known as PS10 and built by the Spanish company Abengoa Solar, the project produces electricity with 624 large moveable mirrors called heliostats, using these to concentrate the sun's heat to the top of a 115 - metre - high tower where a solar receiver and a steam turbine are located.

The «Living Tower» design seen here is complete with solar panels, a rainwater purification system, and two large wind turbines on top for energy production.

«On the largest turbines, researchers continue to use an undersized 75 - meter search radius, even though the much larger turbines are known to catapult birds and bats much further from turbine towers.

The technology, which EnviroMission calls a Solar Tower power station, uses the sun's heat to warm a large body of air which then rises through a vertical wind tunnel causing large turbines to spin and generate electricity.

Ranging from small - scale turbine units on the sea floor to large - scale turbines on vertical towers or suspended from boats, tidal current exploitation technology is still very much in the infant stage of development.

Recently these farms have become enormous, using large wind turbines, blades, and towers.

It is possible that, if the eagle was hit by an ascending turbine blade, it could have been thrown this far; however, research by Dr Cindy Hull in Tasmania has indicated that wedge - tailed eagles are most often hit by descending turbine blades and that they rarely, if ever, fall as far as 180m from a turbine tower (it is possible that the eagle could have been dragged by a large scavenger).

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The authors of the study estimate that all bird fatalities from wind turbines range from 214,000 to 368,000 annually — a small fraction compared with the estimated 6.8 million fatalities from collisions with cell and radio towers, 1.4 to 3.7 billion fatalities from cats, and of the many other, much larger threats that birds face today.

Comparison of moderately large wind turbines to a cellular tower (disguised as a tree by public demand) and the Metaphor: Tree of Utah sculpture, often called a desert eyesore.

Photovoltaic systems use conducting material to convert sunlight directly to electricity and need only nominal amounts of water to wash their solar panels, compared with the traditional steam - turbine solar that uses much larger volumes of water for cooling towers.

Advancements undertaken by manufacturers include designing taller towers and turbines with longer and lighter blades allowing rotor diameters to exceed 100 meters, larger than the wingspan of the largest commercial jets.