Sentences with phrase «major wind turbine farms»
Research suggests Hawaii's five major wind turbine farms are killing endangered bats about -LSB-...]
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The U.S. Department of Energy estimates energy losses in wind farms to be as high as 10 - 20 percent and identifies complex airflows created by the turbines as the major culprit for such losses.
In the Australian context with our very inflammable environment right across SE australia where by far the bulk of the turbine farms are located, the almost guaranteed likelihood of turbine nacelle fires might well be a very major and an ultimately disastrous life destroying fault of wind turbines as they begin to age and become more prone to mechanical failure and electrical failures in the nacelles.
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).
I predict a major decline has occurred in all the local bird of prey populations in the vicinity of every wind turbine farm in North America.
Supplanting the company's current 3.6 megawatt turbines, these giant energy factories should make wind power more economical, since the major cost of building and installing offshore wind farms does not depend primarily on a turbine's size, but on the number of them that need to be erected.
These would not, however, be used in groups to provide the equivalent amount of power of the arrays of large wind turbines you find in a wind farm tied to major transmission systems.
A specific case in which envy seems to be a major factor in the development of opposition to a wind farm is the Ceres Project on SA's Yorke Peninsula, where some potential turbine hosts demanded more money than the proponent was willing to pay.
For example, Japan's wind turbine farms including a major offshore wind farm were pretty much unscathed by both the earthquake and the tsunami.