Sentences with phrase «m wind turbine blade»

Their performances have included spilling oil like substances, installing a 16.5 m wind turbine blade in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, occupying the gallery overnight in a durational performance transcribing texts in charcoal onto the gallery floor, and giving permanent climate tattoos live.

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Not exact matches

Over 7,000 Iowans like Bill Nosbisch are employed doing jobs like maintaining wind turbines, monitoring wind - farm systems, and making wind blades.

The technology overlaps are valuable: For example, carbon - fiber - reinforced composites developed for jet - engine fan blades are used in GE's wind - turbine fan blades, and ceramics developed for electricity - generating turbines are used in jet engines.

But according to a source, it is the prevailing winds at these location that make the two blade turbines actually quite unsuitable for conditions in the region, because they can't stand up to the wind shears here.

Blade by blade, section by section of tower housings and foundations, the pieces that will make up 36 giant wind turbines in Chautauqua County are lumbering down county and state highways, a U.S. highway and an interstate, from Hamburg to ArkwrBlade by blade, section by section of tower housings and foundations, the pieces that will make up 36 giant wind turbines in Chautauqua County are lumbering down county and state highways, a U.S. highway and an interstate, from Hamburg to Arkwrblade, section by section of tower housings and foundations, the pieces that will make up 36 giant wind turbines in Chautauqua County are lumbering down county and state highways, a U.S. highway and an interstate, from Hamburg to Arkwright.

The turbine blades at the state's largest wind farm are whirling.

Biello: And they do have some more aggressive policies than even the U.S. at present as far as renewable energy goes, whether those who actually realized they have had a lot of problems with kind of wind farms that didn't perform up to expectations, but they do have fairly aggressive targets for how much energy it needs to come from renewable resources like the wind and the sun, they have become the manufacturer, as in all things, for Photovoltaics and the wind turbine blades that are basically powering the green revolution in the West.

The differences between wind turbine and ceiling fan blades arise from the contrasting design criteria: the wind turbine is intended to capture high - velocity wind to generate electricity efficiently; the ceiling fan needs to move air at low velocity with inexpensive components.

And all of that production means that China is bearing the burden of the pollution that can go along with the manufacture of such renewable energy for other countries — whether the acid rain — forming sulfur dioxide emitted from making the steel in a wind turbine's blade or the noxious chemicals left over after manufacturing specialized silicon, or glass, that can turn sunshine into electricity.

Parker's initial blade prototype looked a lot like a wind turbine blade, but the end result (because of manufacturing, safety and operating concerns) was a hybrid between a standard ceiling fan blade and a wind turbine blade.

France is building the world's first wind farm with turbine blades designed to minimize interference with radar systems, using technology partially inspired by stealth warplanes.

The next step will be to prove the technology at wind - turbine scale, with blades that can have diameters of up to 400 feet.

A wind turbine has a rotor with blades that is connected to a shaft.

This could be because like wind turbines, the blades rotate at relatively slow speeds.

Sandia National Laboratories is helping makers of wind turbine blades improve the labor productivity associated with blade fabrication and finishing.

In addition to becoming more prone to catastrophic failure, the turbines also become less efficient at higher speeds because they become more like a wall than a rotor, blocking the wind from flowing past the rapidly rotating blades, says Asfaw Beyene, a professor of engineering at San Diego State University in California, who was not involved with the work.

The project's goal is to make U.S. wind turbine blade manufacture economically viable in the U.S. market.

Last year Ohio legislators passed a law requiring wind turbine blades to be at least a quarter - mile from the nearest property line.

The OIST design is a hybrid of a kite and a wind turbine: an ocean - current turbine is anchored to seabed with a line and floats in the current while water rotates its three blades.

The birds are killed when flying into the path of spinning wind turbine blades.

Wind turbine blades are made of glass - fibre reinforced plastic, a composite material that is difficult to recycle.

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According to a new report from Navigant Research, which analyzes 22 wind turbine manufacturers and 18 independent wind blade manufacturers, the focus on wind turbine blades is increasing.

«The strength - to - weight value proposition is important in the wind turbine business, where incremental blade size increases result in significantly more energy capture,» said Jesse Broehl, senior research analyst with Navigant Research.

As the demand for sustainable energy rises, see how the wind industry is responding by building bigger and more powerful turbine blades.

Three years earlier they deposited a wind turbine blade at the gallery, with an official request for it to be made part of the museum's permanent collection.

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.

There's lots of cool stuff going on with biomimicry these days and on Wednesday I got to see one of the coolest things I've seen in this arena in a while: Experimental superhydrophobic coatings for wind turbine blades.

Unlike horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWTs), which maintain a steady torque if the wind remains steady, VAWTs have two «pulses» of torque and power for each blade, based on whether the blade is in the upwind or downwind position.

These bendable, exascale wind turbines are built to withstand the stress with a hinge at the turbine hub that allows the blades to align themselves with the wind direction when necessary.

Flapping wind turbines were inspired by the wing beats of bees, which are potentially more efficient in converting wind to electricity than the more traditional turbine blades.

The Segmented Ultralight Morphing Rotor (SUMR) turbine responds to wind strength by changing the direction the lightweight blades are facing.

But the efficiency of wind turbines is almost at its maximum already for any given size, since we also understand the physics of wind blades very well.

Calling it Tubercle Technology, the company has designed wind turbine blades that utilize the same physical streamlining properties to help them be quieter, more reliable when winds fail, are perform better in turbulent winds.

North American studies of bat deaths and wind turbines have found bats are killed either by being struck by turbine blades or by air pressure changes caused by the turbines that burst blood vessels in their lungs.

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«Throughout the wind - energy industry, drones are becoming more prevalent for site and blade inspection because they offer clear views of every angle of the turbines,» McIver said.

Though small by today's standards — the wind turbine's blades were less than one third the length of those installed offshore by Deepwater Wind — the 200 kilowatt - capacity turbine produced as much as 11 percent of the island's energy needs during off - peak winter monwind turbine's blades were less than one third the length of those installed offshore by Deepwater Wind — the 200 kilowatt - capacity turbine produced as much as 11 percent of the island's energy needs during off - peak winter monWind — the 200 kilowatt - capacity turbine produced as much as 11 percent of the island's energy needs during off - peak winter months.

I believe that wind turbines detect lightning strikes because some repair, usually minor, is normally required to the area on the turbine blade where the strike occurred.

Days after several Freeborn County wind turbines had to be shut down after a chunk of ice fell off a blade and landed on a passing semi truck, a family whose home lies within feet of the proposed Freeborn Wind Farm project said they're concerned about something similar happening at their hwind turbines had to be shut down after a chunk of ice fell off a blade and landed on a passing semi truck, a family whose home lies within feet of the proposed Freeborn Wind Farm project said they're concerned about something similar happening at their hWind Farm project said they're concerned about something similar happening at their home.

Hundreds of thousands of birds are killed every year after flying into large wind turbine blades, an issue that became an ongoing saga for the administration this year.

Trident Winds plans to build a floating array of about 100 wind turbines, each with a hub height of 400 feet — which works out to up to 600 feet in height when one of the turning blades is at the 12 o'clock position — some 33 nautical miles off Morro Bay.

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The larger a wind turbine is the more energy it can produce, but there's a problem: as the size grows so does the weight of the turbine blades which puts a limit on turbine size.

Most of the sound generated by wind turbines is aerodynamic, caused by the movement of turbine blades through the air.

Among the chronic external factors affecting wind turbines are the accumulation of dust, dirt and insect debris on the blades.

Residents living near a wind farm have reported sheltering in their homes when lumps of ice were thrown from blades from a 410 - ft high turbine near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.

My personal interest in this project is that I'm a wild - life lover, and would very much like to see the end of the huge 3 - blade wind turbines and the wounding and killing of the birds.

Offshore wind facilities, which are currently not in operation in the United States but may become more common, require larger amounts of space because the turbines and blades are bigger than their land - based counterparts.