Sentences with phrase «near turbines for»

And tens of thousands who have lived near turbines for up to 25 years without health problems which anybody links to wind power.»

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Encroachment is a key factor that is considered when the federal government is reviewing military bases for potential shut down and 70 individual, 600 - foot tall wind turbines, located on the edge of Lake Ontario near the base, could be considered major objects of encroachment.

Efforts to protect wildlife, for instance, have brought animal populations perilously near to human settlements: Beaver dams cause floods, deer carry tick infestations, geese get sucked into plane turbines.

PNNL scientists have found that trying to keep minimum pressure higher in all areas near the turbine is key for preventing barotrauma.

However, because current turbines are extremely efficient and operate near their thermodynamic limit, there is little room for efficiency enhancement.

He also receives payments for hosting nine of the more than 100 wind turbines now operating near Elizabeth City, N.C. Sarah McCammon / NPR hide caption

Industrial wind turbines are an inharmonious use of the land when sited near people's homes; large - scale wind turbines used for power generation are NOT an agricultural use of the land.

This proposed wind farm project near to the planned Trump golf resort has also drawn criticism from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) in Britain, who raised concerns that the wind turbines could harm rare birds in the area like the red - throated diver and common scoters.

The US military have been at odds with the wind industry for years, as have defence forces elsewhere — wind turbines interfere with military radar, seismography (used to monitor nuclear testing) and pilots near wind turbines have recorded near misses on training runs.

People like Zeman say they're furious with county leaders for entertaining the idea of allowing the construction of wind turbines near their homes.

Holmes à Court is famous for being the driving force behind the two turbine community owned wind farm near Daylesford Victoria, the first of its kind in Australia.

«Across all model specifications, we find no statistical evidence that home prices near wind turbines were affected -LSB-...] There is no statistical evidence that homes in either the PAPC [post-announcement, pre-construction] or PC [post-construction] periods that sold near turbines (i.e., within a mile or even a half mile) did so for less than similar homes that sold between 3 and 10 away miles in the same period.»

Research from NREL shows exceptionally good wind speeds for utility - scale wind turbines along the southern coast of St. Croix — including near the old oil refinery.

I am waiting for the day that your turbines stop turning, which will be in the near future.

Driving along the Princes Highway I was saddened to see turbines being erected for the Mt Gellibrand WF sited near Colac and Birregurra.

Property values: there may be justification for the claim that wind farms reduce property values if the nearest turbine is very close, say considerably less than 1 km from a home, and property values may decline slightly and temporarily in response to the negativity that sometimes surrounds a proposed wind farm, but almost all the credible studies show no decline in the value of land near wind farms.

Rather than the stupid Matthew Guy compromise of an audit only; resulting in NO noise assessment for complaints of received noise being made in Victoria by Impacted residents and road users near badly placed Wind Turbines.

For example, Nova Energy Company is setting up a tidal power project near Seto Inland Sea, using tuna fish shaped turbines as conceived by Suzuki.

The author of this paper says Stantec's insistence on checking for carcasses very near to the turbines is giving false numbers: «The Wolfe Island studies conducted by Stantec reported hundreds of carcasses with just several reported beyond 50 meters.

Since completing the parts agreement, the company team has negotiated long - term service agreements for the existing General Electric, Siemens, and Mitsubishi turbines, and created a new parts exchange program with General Electric for the two newest natural gas - fired units at Cherokee Generating Station near Denver.

Excessive turbine development is not only bad for the populations who have to live near them, but also damages the tourist economy.

On the other hand it is true that some wind farm companies have acted unethically at times, with insufficient consideration for the people who are going to be living near wind farms at other times, and they generally emphasize the advantages and down - play the disadvantages of wind turbines.

Based on wind - speed measurements, researchers at MIT, led by Stephen Connors, director of the Analysis Group for Regional Electricity Alternatives, calculated that large turbines located far offshore could ultimately cost less per power generated than either land - based turbines or near - offshore ones, even factoring in extra costs, such as much longer underground electricity transmission cables.

Now Business Green reports that an installation of a Quiet Revolution near the Portland Marina Olympic sailing venue in Dorset has lead to a # 2m contract for 400 more turbines from the company who helped manufacture it:

Cheshire - based Hutchinson designed the 18 metre - high vertical axis wind turbine located near Portland Marina in Dorset — the venue for the Olympic Games sailing events.

Initially, in the first phase of offshore wind deployment, on - land wind turbine designs were in effect «marinized» for offshore use, and located relatively near to shore.

The number of turbines used in the calculation is to allow for the fact that as one gets further away from an individual turbine there are more turbines at a similar distance to the nearest one.