Sentences with phrase «of old turbines»

Does anyone know what the actual lifetime / maintenance data is in Denmark, which has some of the oldest turbines?

Not exact matches

According to temperature readings from one of the oldest wind farms in the U.S., near Palm Springs, Calif., the turbines make it warmer at night and cooler during the day, generally speaking.

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.

Cameron based the 1970 Challenger grille off an older sketch of his 1966 Charger prototype that was to have a turbine engine.

Twenty - seven - year - old Maeve Brennan is based in London and Beirut, and uses her proposed work emphasizes the «whirring presence» of wind turbines, examining their ripple effects on the ecosystem.

The Department of Health's Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dr Colette Bonner, has said that older people, people who suffer from migraine, and others with a sensitivity to low - frequency vibration, are some of those who can be at risk of «wind turbine syndrome».

In a bid to give a voice to the thousands of people who suffer in their health from the vicinity to wind turbines, the North American Platform Against Wind Power (NA - PAW) presents to the public twelve - year - old Jordynn Stom, whose already delicate health is being threatened by a wind farm project.

Ultra-green Denmark admits it has no idea what to with a worrisome mountain of old and broken wind turbine blades.

The second is that the turbines experience more frequent breakdowns and their operators take more time to bring them back into service because they are less concerned about the performance of older plants.

First Wind, just over a decade old, has prospered by following an unconventional strategy that often avoids towering ridgelines, instead building at lower elevations and taking advantage of technological advances that allow turbines to generate electricity at lower wind speeds.

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.

He proposes to replace the conventional turbines of previous planned schemes with a much older technology.

The oil - fired (liquid - fired) generators are only used minimally today, due to a combination of high relative fuel prices, air pollution restrictions, and the low efficiencies of the older steam turbines and newer internal combustion units.

In practice, according to Beth Ambrose, senior consultant at Jones Lang LaSalle, the property specialist, that means the use of a variety of new and old technologies, from solar panels and wind turbines to recycling facilities and incinerators to produce energy from rubbish.

It would take 7.35 of the old 60 ft. blade diameter turbines for each new 160 ft. blade diameter.

The correct ratio is 7.35 of the old 60 ft. blade diameter turbines for each new 160 ft. blade diameter.

(Editor's Note: Another repost at a time when we need to remind people of how McGuinty has destroyed rural Ontario) Whenever I get into a debate with someone over wind turbines, they always haul out that old dated nugget about coal plants.

Leave Climategate 2 alone Panorama last week and Stupid old Prince Phillip and rising fuel bills Concentrate on the uneconomic cost of Wind Turbines causing Fuel poverty and Julia Gillards Carbon Taxes etc etc use the recession to our advantage (and save a load of unessessary hardship for people) Get our movement Real and back on track

The end of subsidies for older turbines, however, threatens countless wind farms.

Today a large number of Germany's 29,000 total turbines nationwide are approaching 20 years old and for the most part they are outdated.

Many older US turbines have steel lattice towers, similar to those of communication towers, while all industrial scale Australian turbines have solid steel tube towers;

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 turbines are the land - bound equivalents of the old sailing ships, graceful, quiet, impressive in their power.

Over 500 of the old tiny turbines are being replaced with something like 25 modern ones.

The CWP Compressed Air Enclosed Wind Turbine is the brainchild of 89 year old Raymond Green, who invented and patented his unique version of wind power generator.

A 15 - year - old student in Oklahoma wrote to the North American Platform Against Windpower with questions about the negative aspects of wind turbines for a Future Farmers of America project:

Old turbines found a new lease on life as a pendant light that hints at a bit of modern and industrial farmhouse style.