Sentences with phrase «long turbine blades»

They don't even measure from the end of the really long turbine blades for the setback.

Taller towers also allow for longer turbine blades.

Not exact matches

A massive wind turbine — capable of turning the breeze into two million watts of power — has 40 - meter - long blades made from fiberglass, towers 90 meters above the ground, weighs hundreds of metric tons, and fundamentally relies on roughly 300 kilograms of a soft, silvery metal known as neodymium — a so - called rare earth.

In wind turbines, carbon fiber's stiffness means rotors can use longer blades, thereby increasing the efficiency of each individual generator.

Speaking earlier this month, Kiernan pointed to «taller towers, longer blades, and improved electronics to operate and maintain the turbines are all part of this revolution.»

With a 53 foot long, decommissioned wind turbine blade, paint, glitter, and his own vision for the desert valley, Gibson has created ALIVE, a site - specific installation that he could not make in New York and one that manages to avoid the hackneyed and cliché notions of the desert.

A 250ft - long (75m) wind turbine blade is being erected in Queen Victoria Square, between the Ferens Art Gallery, City Hall and the Maritime Museum.

In order to have that much energy capacity in a single turbine, it will have to have blades more than 650 feet long, which is longer than the length of two football fields and also two and a half times longer than any existing turbine blade (pictured above is a cross section of a smaller version of the blade the team is working on).

«While longer blades may allow project developers to produce more energy from their turbines, they will also require bigger towers to support them.

Measuring in with 80 - meter long blades that have a swept area of 21,124 meters - squared, the turbine is bigger than the London Eye and a single turbine alone can power 8,300 average households.

Earlier this year, Deepwater selected Alstom as the project's turbine supplier and long - term maintenance and service provider, and received delivery of the project's 15 wind turbine blades from the turbine manufacturer.

This is an exciting new technology development that can substantially reduce the long term cost of energy from offshore wind turbines and the company is proud and thankful to be supported by GROW: OffshoreWind in this work,» said Theo Botha, co-founder of Blade Dynamics.

Each blade on these turbines is over 200 feet long, about the length of the wingspan of a 747 aircraft.

Longer blades with taller turbines have increased wind farm power generation, and drastically reduced costs.

Each as tall as the Statue of Liberty, the turbines use 240 - foot - long blades made by the Danish company LM Wind Power attached to a 6 - megawatt Haliade generator made by GE Renewable Energy in France.

Instruments have long been sent out to sea to measure winds on the ocean's surface, but the blade tips of offshore wind turbines can reach up to 600 feet above the surface, where winds can behave very differently.

The new factory is expected to make the enormous blades for wind turbines, which can be longer than an Olympic swimming pool, as well as the generator units that sit at the top of the turbine.

On July 19, 2000, TXU Electric and FPL Energy announced plans for a major «wind farm,» to be built in West Texas, south of Odessa, that would: * Consist of 242 wind turbines that will stand 166 - feet tall and have fiberglass blades 76 - feet long (for a total height of 232 feet).

The turbine blades are 246 - feet long with a rotor diameter of 505 feet.

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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.

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The turbines are massive, reaching 252 feet in the air, and each of the three blades are 140 feet long.