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An energy expert expects that the number of turbines in Ontario is expected to triple, spurring anti-wind energy activism in rural areas.

While this dwarfs the number of turbines in other countries, the energy demand of such a large nation is significantly higher.

Not exact matches

But neighbors quickly rallied against the proposal, citing, in part, the possible risk of fire if the turbine were installed in the middle of the woods and the large number of birds in the nature preserve surrounding the lake.

The study spanned 2003 to 2011, during which time the region saw a boost in the number of wind turbines, from 111 to 2358.

«Wind turbines generate electricity by removing energy from the wind, so a larger number of wind turbines should result in a slowdown of the winds in the lower atmosphere,» Mechem said.

In 2012 turbines killed more bats than birds, and the numbers of the dead were substantial: about 888,000 bats were found on wind farms, compared with 573,000 birds.

There are two benefits of this new design feature: The reduction of one oil channel between the valve body and the rotating clutches, which reduces the number of rotating oil seals and oil channels within the turbine shaft; and, secondly, the capability for rapid discharge of oil in the compensators during clutch apply, for greater control.

BKL: You included a number of technical terms in Jet Plane: How It Works, such as fuselage, turbine, and combustion chamber.

Sculptures and Site - Specific Installations Kapoor has produced a large number of works including Taratantara (1999, Baltic Flour Mills in Gateshead, England), a 35 - metre tall piece; and Marsyas (2002) a gigantic work of steel and PVC that was installed in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern Gallery in London (see below).

Benefits of Wind Power There are a number of benefits of wind turbines which explains why it's become the fastest growing energy source in the world.

I am amazed that hundreds of wind turbines and wind turbine farms are being discussed before any serious studies have been done on how electricity demand could be reduced, which in turn of course would reduce the number of wind turbines needed!

Wind turbines are generally connected to a single home or building in order to create electricity for its occupants, however, there is an increasing number of wind farms being created that are connected to an electricity grid for the more widespread distribution of electricity.

But it is the coal that killed him; In the last election he lost a huge number of seats in rural ridings divided by wind turbines on land and offshorIn the last election he lost a huge number of seats in rural ridings divided by wind turbines on land and offshorin rural ridings divided by wind turbines on land and offshore.

Offshore wind turbines keep getting bigger and bigger, and the size of new and proposed offshore wind energy projects is increasing, so it stands to reason that a corresponding increase will be seen in the number of wind turbine technicians needed to maintain and repair them.

The worldwide growth of the wind industry, in addition to the number of turbines coming off warranty, is leading to a vibrant — and valuable — aftermarket.

Bird Studies Canada released a report earlier this month that showed an astounding number of bats are being killed by Ontario's wind turbines — in fact, 77 % of the bats killed by wind power projects in Canada, were in Ontario.

This is also consistent with how he is perceived by others who are also actively engaged in the same dishonest activities of denying the known adverse health impacts of wind turbine acoustic emissions; known to the wind industry and acousticians to cause damage to health via «annoyance» symptoms including sleep disturbance and body vibrations for nearly thirty years, since the work undertaken by Dr Neil Kelley et al in collaboration with NASA and a number of research organisations and wind turbine manufacturers.

Yes, I slept right under wind turbines a number of times to test for myself whether there could possibly be anything in the stories of their being harmful.

In order to increase reliability and service life, there are a number of areas wind turbine owners can address.

A significant number of people, who live in proximity to Industrial Wind Turbines, complain about a variety of physical and emotional symptoms.

Indeed, if large numbers of wind turbines can be grouped together, this can be done in an extremely efficient way.

Several migratory tree - living species of bats were being slaughtered «in unprecedented numbers» by wind turbines, said the researcher.

I think their numbers are higher because wind turbines these days tend to be built at 100m instead of 80m and the nrel chart shows over 175,000 MW of wind potential at at least 30 % capacity factor at 100m in the second chart at.

A problem with putting large numbers of wind turbines together in one place is that many people regard them as a serious environmental blight.

Exactly the same situation exists in the electricity sector: no number of turbines will ever equal the cost, reliability and output of one conventional electricity plant.

In other parts of the wind farm I noticed sheep very close to turbines, and to judge by the number of sheep droppings near the nearby turbine, sheep often camp there.

General Electric ranks number one in U.S. wind turbine sales and is actually one of the largest suppliers of wind turbines in the world, boasting more than 11,600 wind turbine installations that comprise more than 18,000 megawatts of capacity.

The number of wind turbines installed grew three-fold between 2007 - 2012 and the instances of reported fires in wind farms are increasing, say the researchers.

That problem — * exasperated sigh * — is this: if the RSPB is really concerned about the potential disturbance to wildlife of a few noisy lorries and drill rigs (which, let's not forget, are only up for a short period, after which they are replaced by a silent extraction device called a Christmas tree), how come it's so cheerfully complacent about the epic numbers of rare birds and protected bats which are sliced and diced (or, in the case of bats, barotraumatised — i.e. made to implode) by the industrial wind turbines which the RSPB not only champions but from which it benefits financially.

A more sober assessment of the number of turbines needed based on 2011 production data from EIA is in excess of 4,000 units and perhaps 5,000.

Historically, a number of turbine combustors were «liberated» resulting in «substantial» downstream «disruption».

«In 2010, this number peaked, with 34 % of the installed turbines never spinning their blades,» said Lam.

Turbines in the US wind market will continue to get bigger as competition among the shrinking number of OEMs intensifies and developers seek a lower levelised cost of energy (LCOE), especially as the production tax credit (PTC) is phased out.

Despite the large number of wind turbines coming online this year, WindEurope predicts that the continent will see another record amount connected to the grid in 2019.

To actually accomplish replacing all light vehicles in the UK with battery - powered vehicles, while also meeting the requirements of the UK's Climate Change Act, would require building 39,000 new 2 MW wind turbines, which is nearly 6 times the number of wind turbines built over the last 15 years.

In China, efforts to deploy large numbers of wind turbines are justified not only as helping with energy security, but also as providing a foundation for a strategic export industry.

The MSMs eventually picked up the stories and their investigative journalists started delving into the scandal to reveal yet many more skeletons, and whipping up a general hysteria among the general public because of the lies that had been told to them in order to justify policies which caused the rape of our countryside with thousands of ugly wind turbines, which caused the numbers of people in fuel poverty to increase by five fold in only a couple of years and which caused many energy dependant jobs to be permanently exported.

In Champaign County the developers of that project recently filed an amendment to their permit slashing the number of proposed turbines from about 100 to 50.

Some criticized that paper for relying too heavily on adding turbines to existing hydroelectric dams — which the group suggested in order to increase peak electricity production without changing the number or size of the dams.

With forced cuts in a number of bad programs and through the close economic scrutiny of consumers and other utilities, the viability of wind turbine electric is very questionable.

l. With forced cuts in a number of bad programs and through the close economic scrutiny of consumers and other utilities, the viability of wind turbine electric is very questionable.

I have even camped out and slept beneath a number of turbines, I have slept in a cabin 850m from a wind farm on two nights and in an abandoned house near another wind farm, so that I could get first - hand experience.

Why not Ontario??? The Spectator reported in March this year that the UK Gov» t had finally awakened to the wind energy SCAM: «To the nearest whole number, the percentage of the world's energy that comes from wind turbines today is: zero.»

m. With the number of operating wind turbine operators going down and the Bankruptcy of Kenetech, it would seem the experiment in wind energy is now a sinking ship.

The CPREs report «Generating light on landscape impacts: How to accommodate onshore wind while protecting the countryside», calls on the government to provide more clarity on the total number of onshore wind turbines it expects will be installed, and wants the capacity of the landscape to accommodate wind turbines «without unacceptable damage» to be formally taken into account in planning decisions.

Support for the Danish and Swedish academic opposition to the new, lax legislation on wind turbine noise being concocted in Copenhagen has been coming from a number of noise engineers, acousticians, doctors, psychologists and nurses in the UK, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc. who have expressed in conferences and in the media their concern about the failure of governments to address properly the wind farm health problem.

This includes owning 416 wind turbines, more than the total number of IKEA stores, in 12 countries and placing some 750,000 rooftop solar PV panels on its buildings.

If the German climate protection plan is implemented as planned and the number of turbines is doubled, the red kite could soon be extinct in Germany.

The blanket - exemption treatment is based on increasingly questionable assertions that wind turbines reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels that supposedly cause global warming, climate change, extreme weather events and an amazing number of dog, people, Italian pasta, prostitution and other exaggerated or imaginary problems, plus others that exist only in computer models whose forecasts and scenarios bear no resemblance to Real World conditions or events.

And the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the number of wind turbine service technician jobs is expected to increase by 96 percent by 2026, making it the second fastest - growing job in America.