Those much bigger turbine blades can weigh over 2,000 pounds.
Not exact matches
The Mexican conceptual artist's
big Tate commission, «Empty Lot,» fills the
Turbine Hall with a grid of planters containing soil from London parks; it may not look like
much now, but it's likely to evolve over the course of the six - month show.
To force that
much money out of the pockets of ratepayers and taxpayers and into the coffers of European
turbine manufacturers and
Big Fossil / Wind companies like Duke, NextEra and Exelon is folly.
The media helped to feed the hype machine: Many articles about small wind in the last two years have run alongside photos of roof - mounted
turbines; after all, they look
much cooler and more modern than tower - mounted windmills on
big plots of land.
In Esperance, WA for example, small, old, out - dated
turbines have been replaced with
bigger, newer ones; the capacity of the new wind farms (5600 kW) is
much greater than the old one (360 kW).
The 1,034
big turbines now running in Britain produce about 700MW of electricity — about as
much as one conventional power station — but in the next seven years more than 7,000 MW of generating power will be installed on 73 new farms.
As the Independent reports, the Esk hydro
turbine is only intended to be the beginnings of something
much bigger: