Sentences with phrase «make wind turbine blades»

Now, by drawing inspiration from the flexible wings of insects, scientists have found a way to make wind turbine blades 35 % more efficient at producing energy.

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We also shudder to think what Donald Trump, who thinks that the slow rotating blades of wind turbines miles offshore spoil his golf courses, would make of high - pitched whirring noises in the rarefied air above them.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies such as concentrated solar power and more recently turbine blades, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 + gigawatt capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

Regarding the funding, Dominic Brown, CEO of GROW: OffshoreWind said: «We are delighted to support Blade Dynamics in making these important technology innovations for offshore wind turbine blades.

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Class 3 wind facilities with a hub height of 70 metres or more (excluding blade length) that were granted an REA prior to January 1, 2016, will not be subject to the 550 setback requirements unless changes are made to those turbines that increase their sound power level.

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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.

The company that made the world's largest wind turbine blade will soon join one of the world's largest makers of wind turbines.

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.

Making wind turbines larger is getting difficult, in part because they've have grown so large that the wind conditions at the highest point of the blades» sweep can be very different than those at the bottom.

Yvonne Wilke, Volkmar Stenzel and Manfred Peschka of the Fraunhofer Institute have developed a paint based on the textured skin of sharks that will help make the blades of wind turbines spin more effectively.

Current wind turbines are very inefficient as they do not make the best use of the surface area that the rotor blades operate in.