Sentences with phrase «of power the turbine»

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Waste heat recovery systems were installed on the exhausts of the three Rolls - Royce turbines that power the all - electric Likouf.

It is made up of 91 Siemens Gamesa turbines and can generate enough electricity to power 500,000 U.K. homes per year, the Denmark - headquartered business said.

Wind turbines produced double the amount of power required to meet Scotland's electricity needs Monday, according to researchers.

Indeed, thanks to a snowy winter and cool spring, the snowpack covering the entire Pacific Northwest — the vast majority of which is over 1,000 metres elevation and still snowbound — is creating a glut of zero - emission energy as that huge annual reservoir melts and powers hydroelectric turbines.

Adding solar panels or a small wind turbine on the roof of a building will likely generate enough energy to power most offices or small shops!

It will require a consortium of power companies, turbine manufacturers, plant designers and builders to make it competitive with existing sources of energy.

The greatest coup came early last year, when Ontario announced it had negotiated an agreement with a consortium of Korean companies, including Samsung and Korea Power Electric Corp. (Details remain mysterious, but included construction of CS Wind's turbine tower plant in Windsor, a blade manufacturing facility in Tillsonburg, and two other facilities.)

The island is powered by a wind turbine, solar panels, a helipad, and a replica of Stonehenge.

Jet engines, power turbines, motors, drives, the inside of a locomotive, a CT scanner — they all spin.

And it pulls data from the US Wind Turbine Database, a years - long effort to map the gale of wind power sweeping the country.

2014.06.26 RBC invests in Endurance Wind Power Inc. for clean energy for generations to come $ 1 million investment helps grow Canadian manufacturer and developer of wind turbines...

General Electric on Friday delivered quarterly earnings that surpassed analysts» expectations, as its businesses producing jet engines and power turbines offset declines in its oil and gas segment, but revenue fell short of estimates.

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We in our day are very familiar with two kinds of power, mechanical power such as you see in dynamos and turbines....

Billions of taxpayer money wasted on wind turbines and solar power.

The rotating rim block looks brilliant, it has a two phase refill that cleans and freshens with every flush and a turbine which rotates under the pressure of water which spreads the Domestos Power all around the toilet, preventing limescale and removing dirt while releasing fresh fragrance and rich foam, it sounds so lovely and clean, doesn't it?

I'm currently studying wind turbines, which cause the same sort of reaction in people as power station chimneys.

«We are losing 1.2 million barrels of oil per day, all the gas pipelines powering the turbines are being blown up.

The story said Ghana is paying $ 510 million for ten power turbines when the market value of the turbines is $ 220 million.

While Mr. McDonald praised Deepwater Wind, the Rhode Island company that hopes to build the 15 - turbine wind farm approximately 30 miles off Montauk, he was harshly critical of the Long Island Power Authority and PSEG Long Island, which manages the grid for LIPA.

The NPP is demanding an inquiry after a Norwegian newspaper revealed that government through the Power Ministry signed a dubious agreement with an alleged Dubai based fraudster Umar Farooq Zahoor in the process of procuring the gas turbines.

In the months before design and construction takes place for the new 16MW microgrid — a locally sourced power grid consisting of two gas turbine generators — to be located in the downtown neighborhood of Sheridan Hollow, community groups are reaching out in search of concrete answers from project planners.

ALBANY — New York is moving aggressively to a future powered by renewable energy, with an army of clean energy workers trained to install tens of thousands of solar panels and hundreds of wind turbines in the next few years.

He also wanted to create a research program to improve the efficiency of gas turbines used in power generation systems that convert heat into energy.

The Long Island Power Authority's board of directors is expected to approve the proposed 90 - megawatt, 15 - turbine wind farm east of Montauk at a meeting next Wednesday, the utility's chief executive officer, Thomas Falcone, told The Associated Press.

All the turbines are expected to go online and produce power by the end of June.

The turbine, which the Manitowoc Common Council approved on Monday, will generate 20 kilowatts of power, enough to power four or...

The 10 - kilowatt wind turbine was installed in 2010 at an initial cost of around $ 18,000 — the price after federal and Long Island Power Authority grants were factored in.

Long Island Power Authority Chief Executive Officer Thomas Falcone sits in front of some models of offshore wind turbines at the utility's offices in Uniondale, N.Y. in July.

Quinones explained that one of the challenges in the project is keeping the power running while replacing its turbines.

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.

The $ 1.5 billion power plant is expected to produce 275 megawatts of electricity by turning coal into gas, thereby removing impurities including CO2, and burning the resulting pure gas to turn turbines to produce power.

Last year, the government finally took advantage of those winds, installing 33 wind turbines manufactured by domestic company Xinjiang Gold Wind at the Guanting wind power field to harvest this energy and use it to supplement the electricity provided by polluting coal.

Taking into account that wind turbines produce electricity only about a third of the time, that's roughly the equivalent of building one standard one - gigawatt nuclear power plant a year.

A massive wind turbine — capable of turning the breeze into two million watts of power — has 40 - meter - long blades made from fiberglass, towers 90 meters above the ground, weighs hundreds of metric tons, and fundamentally relies on roughly 300 kilograms of a soft, silvery metal known as neodymium — a so - called rare earth.

By 2012, that figure had soared to 22 per cent, on the back of investment in biofuels, wind turbines and, in particular, solar power.

In order to run the turbines of atomic power stations that will eventually bring us our light and internet connections, nuclear power relies on a complicated interplay of atomic interactions, all initiated by the introduction of one neutron into an already stuffed nucleus.

«For instance, we're developing smart rotor blade technology to optimise the power production of single turbines,» says Stephan Barth, managing director at Forwind.

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.

Nearly 50 percent of the electric power in this country comes from burning coal to create steam that drives electricity - generating turbines.

Fossil fuel burning power plants are still too good of a deal to bother investing $ 2 billion into wind turbines.

Contrary to claims by critics of wind power, Spanish researchers say, the turbines do reduce carbon dioxide emissions significantly even though the wind does not blow continuously

Harnessing the power of water flowing downhill to spin turbines is the most convenient energy source in many parts of the world, and it's a clean, renewable source of energy to boot.

A tiny wind turbine in a test tank at Teddington, Middlesex, could hold the key to wind power's most difficult public relations problem: making this form of renewable energy environmentally acceptable to all.

«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.

Milton tells us of Charles Parsons's continued failures to convince the admiralty of the worth of his steam turbine for powering ships.

Recording the unique calls of birds on nighttime legs of the spring migration will let researchers know where proposed wind power turbines should be placed.

Its turbines, harnessing the power of the world's third largest river, will have a capacity of 18 000 megawatts.

«It's a standard measurement because they need to know the air density to determine the power output of the turbine.»