Sentences with phrase «like large turbines»

The parts for the system can be transported by typical 18 - wheel flatbed trucks instead of needing special equipment like large turbines do and once they reach the coast they can be put in place by conventional ships.

Not exact matches

Commercial wave energy converters can be large and are generally part of a group of devices, like a wind farm with multiple turbines.

Large, turbine - like air vents remain a polarizing Mercedes design touch, but every control looks and feels hewn from high - quality materials, even the bits made of painted plastic.

Where one might expect to find an array of buttons framing a large, centrally - mounted MMI screen, the 2015 Audi TT only submits a row of toggle switches and three turbine - like air - con vents.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires that large wind turbines, like all structures over 200 feet high, have white or red lights for aviation safety.

CSP plants are more like typical power plants and require incorporating large steam turbines and storage tanks, plus a large, flat area for the solar array.

He decided he would like to make large scale wind power comercially viable and in 1996 he erected his first large scale wind turbine, Ecotricity was on its way and the rest is history.

Another option is to install of the small wind turbines (like a Air X) and use it to see how much power a larger wind turbine would generate.

These are the turbines that typically have two or three large propeller - like blades that face into the wind.

Wind turbines can be built on both land and — increasingly and to great effect — offshore in large bodies of water like oceans and lakes.

Although small wind turbines may look like miniature versions of large turbines, there are important differences in technology, purchase decisions, application requirements and value of generated electricity.

Larger turbines (like coal, nuclear and most natural gas) going down unexpectedly can be much more disruptive since you are losing 100x as much power (or more!)

«Weather response to a large wind turbine array» D. B. Barrie, D. B. Kirk - Davidoff http://www.atmos-chem-phys.org/10/769/2010/acp-10-769-2010.pdf section 2.4: they calculate that their wind farm would produce 2.48 TW power (I only read a little bit, it sounded like this is for the specific time period modelled but I could be wrong.

They believe the material can be scaled - up to large surface areas like airplane wings and wind turbine blades and also heat coils and car windshields.

It explores some of the potential solutions, like rapid response gas turbines and large - scale hydro - power storage, but it is perhaps most interesting in how it captures the nature of the problem itself, and what can cause it.

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».