Sentences with phrase «more turbines powered»

Rushing water from the American River passing through four large water turbines powered the four AC generators and two more turbines powered smaller DC generators.

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The metals producer, more than 125 years old, makes parts for gas turbines, the engines that plane manufacturers such as Boeing and Airbus install to give planes the power to get you to your next meeting.

More than 100 clergy issued a letter to the governor urging him to have the New York Power Authority seek clean - energy alternatives to a plan that would install natural gas - fired turbines in the Sheridan Hollow neighborhood.

NYPA officials says replacing the turbines will help the provider continue to deliver low - cost power to its customers, including business which, in turn, provide more than 400,000 jobs throughout the state.

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.

A slew of new coal - fired generators are coming online, he noted, and while those plants are sleeker and more efficient, they're still not nearly as clean as gas - fired turbines or renewable power sources.

Attaching turbines directly to the craft would mean more generators and therefore more power.

Wind - power engineers are developing new turbines that are far more efficient than those built just a decade ago.

COPENHAGEN — Revolutionizing the energy industry to achieve a target concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere of no more than 450 parts per million (ppm) would require building 17 nuclear power plants a year between now and 2030; 17,000 wind turbines a year; or two hydropower dams on the scale of Three Gorges Dam in China, according to the International Energy Agency.

Today, the eight turbines at the Steel Wind project crank out enough clean, green electricity to power more than 6,000 homes in western New York, and the 400 - foot - tall windmills have become a visual landmark.

«If we can demonstrate this superconducting - wire technology in a wind turbine, we think it's more likely that it will make its way into the power cables of the electricity grid,» says Selvamanickam.

«For wind turbines, we want to apply them to generate more wind power at a lower cost of electricity.

Europe has installed more than 3,500 turbines capable of generating about 12,600 MW of power, according to a report by WindEurope.

«The relative cost of new energy is lower and lower because fossil fuel is more and more expensive,» explained Lu Jinxiang, CEO of A-Power, a Chinese builder of power plants, during a visit to the company's Shenyang wind turbine factory.

Although solar thermal collectors are better than photovoltaic panels or wind turbines at generating reliable power around the clock, solar thermal power is also expensive; at present energy costs, it would require government subsidies to compete with coal and natural gas, which can generate electricity much more cheaply.

Drawing inspiration from the wings of insects, flexible wind turbine blades could generate more power in a wider range of wind conditions.

GE's H - class heavy - duty gas turbines are currently the world's largest and most efficient gas turbines, capable of converting fuel and air into electricity at more than 62 percent power - plant efficiency when matched with a steam turbine generator, a setup known as combined cycle.

Researchers have taken a key step toward helping wildlife coexist more safely with wind power generation by demonstrating the success of an impact detection system that uses vibration sensors mounted to turbine blades.

At the end of 2009, the capacity of Texas wind turbines, reaching to the horizons of farm and prairie land, totaled 9,410 megawatts, well more than the combined total of the next three largest wind - power states, Iowa, California and Washington.

Today's nuclear power plants use the heat from uranium fission reactions to do nothing more complicated than boil water, making pressurized steam that spins turbines to generate electricity.

Like older models, they will use uranium fission to heat water and drive a turbine, but these reactors will be smaller, simpler to build, and each will add more than 1100 megawatts of capacity to the region's power grid when they come online in 2016 or 2017 — without emitting carbon dioxide.

Retrofitted wind turbines could produce as much as 50 percent more power over time, CEO John McDonald states.

The benefit is higher efficiency jet engines and power turbines that produce more power and less greenhouse gases, which is a good thing for the planet.»

«And the newly improved Sensor Fish will allow us to more accurately measure the forces that fish feel as they pass by turbines and other structures in both conventional dams and other hydro power facilities.

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This is an all new engine, and also uses BMW's TwinPower Turbo technology, or basically variable turbine geometry which allows the engine to put out slightly higher power (about 7 - 8 bhp more), but still reduces consumption (and emissions) by 17 % according to manufacturer data.

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Whether the discussion turns to replacing coal - fired power plants with wind turbines and using electric cars instead of gas - driven SUVs, converting industrial agricultural practices to organic permaculture, or reversing the decline of ocean life though international regulations, it is an article of faith in the reform movement that we know what we need to do and all that's lacking is a sufficiently visionary leader to put more planet - friendly solutions in place.

When the wind turbines in Denmark are producing more power than can be used locally (and indeed «locally» is an oversimplification of how an electric grid works), it flows through the rest of the grid; when they're not meeting local demand, power flows in from France, Germany, Switzerland, or wherever.

There have been improvements in wind turbine design and scientists are developing technology to make wind turbines more efficient as well as develop technology (high temperature super conducting materials) that will allow power to be transported long distances (perhaps coast to coast) with very little energy loss.

From 40 % of total demand in Spain to Texas wind power hitting a peak of 6,272 MW, it's only to be expected that as more and more wind turbines go up, utilities around the world will be reporting record breaking amounts of wind power feeding into the grid.

in order to get more power out of single turbines.

That doesn't save the really, really stupid argument made by wind power advocates that «cats kill more birds than wind turbines».

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The United States has enough wind turbines installed to power more than 15 million homes.

The device uses a helium - filled, inflatable shell to enable it to ascend to high altitudes, which give it access to stronger and more consistent winds than tower - mounted turbines, and the generated power is sent to the ground via tethers, which also hold the device steady

Sticking a solar array or urban turbines atop a datacenter roof might seem like a more universal way to hook up to renewable energy; however, at this point, any and all renewable power sources should be explored.

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It is one of the few hydro - power stations in Australia to include pumped hydro in which water is pumped from the lower Jounama Pondage to the upper Talbingo Reservoir when electricity is plentiful and cheap, so that it can flow back down through the turbines to generate more electricity at times of higher demand.

We saw a sketch of an electric car drawing power from the wind and storing energy from the grid, a photo of farmer taking off a hay crop while a wind turbine generates royalty income for his family from the same field, an illustration of wind energy at the centre of a clean and vibrant cityscape, and many more examples of how Canadians are becoming more conscious about where our electricity comes from, how we use it, and how our choices can contribute to a more prosperous and sustainable world.

According to Wikipedia, Denmark (a very small and densely populated Scandinavian country that has more wind power per capita than any other nation) has quite a few off - shore wind farms, Sweden has only one wind farm with more than 10 turbines.

The super-sized blades would create enough power to generate up to 50 megawatts of electricity, 25 times more than today's typical turbine.

If you look at being able to being able to put [energy storage] into wind turbines, making sure to stabilize grid, allowing more renewables to come in, and you can use it with solar to absorb power in middle of the day.

Off - shore turbines cost twice as much as on - shore turbines — I don't think people want more increases in their power bills.

The land use impact of wind power facilities varies substantially depending on the site: wind turbines placed in flat areas typically use more land than those located in hilly areas.

Today's wind turbines produce 100 times more power with only three blades.

Some sources, like wind power, most of the levelized cost of energy is in the capital cost, and so once you have the turbine up, there is no incentive to limit its use, but there would perhaps be incentives to build them in more marginal locations.

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.