Sentences with phrase «of small turbines»

But small scale and urban wind turbines suited to low or turbulent wind conditions could be an option for more of us, if we can get past two big considerations, the visibility and the lower historical efficiency of small turbines.

With that boost, the total capacity of small turbines in the U.S. now exceeds 100 megawatts.

A turbocharger creates boost (pressure) through the spinning of a small turbine (pushed by exhaust gases) that shares a shaft with a similar - looking compressor, which delivers the extra air to the engine.

Not exact matches

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!

Water Power Group is a community - based developer of small hydro power projects in Ontario that use low - impact, fish - friendly turbines.

Douglas Carswell recently claimed on ConservativeHome that his «small state» brand of Tory politics was more potent than David Cameron's «wind turbine» variety.

New York is ahead of most other states in wind - energy production and planning, ranking third in small land - based wind arrays and planning for potentially hundreds of offshore wind turbines over the next decade, the federal government said.

Initially working out of a small apartment and eking out an existence, Yemm had to sell a system he had devised to damp vibrations in wind turbine blades in order to raise seed money.

Regardless of how cheap such small modular reactors may allow nuclear to be in future, it is unlikely to be as cheap as natural - gas - fired turbines in the present.

RoR dams can cause a spike in methylmercury in two ways — they can form small reservoirs, called headponds, which flood soil and create slow - flowing, low - oxygen environments; or they can create higher temperatures in the stream as a result of the reduced flow conditions when portions of the stream are diverted to the turbines.

In NFFO - 3, for example, the government has approved 24 wind projects made up of single turbines or small clusters.

Recently, the UK government set out its own Clean Growth Strategy, committing # 2.5 billion between 2015 and 2021, with hundreds of million to be invested in new generations of small nuclear power stations and offshore wind turbines.

For Arua, he determined that its eight small rivers were ideal for run - of - river systems, in which water flows through turbines.

Either build lots of small, fast - acting, fossil - fueled backup turbines, or go for storage.

Photovoltaic tiles or a small wind turbine on the roofs of houses or apartment blocks are no longer a rarity.

The Snohomish County Public Utility District's pilot project is small — two turbines with 500 kilowatts of total capacity and an average output of 50 kilowatts — hardly a panacea for all that ails the United States» energy portfolio.

However, when a substantial number of turbines are installed over a small area, the amount of electricity generated is no longer governed by simple multiplication, according to the researchers.

In fact, such small - scale wind turbines are typically more about green design than actual energy generation, although the American Wind Energy Association predicts robust growth of as much as 20 percent in the area as a result of local and state tax incentives.

Larry Curley complains that UK law requires small domestic wind turbines to shut down in the event of a mains electricity failure (6 June, p 27).

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.

Instead of starting with a full sized model of the turbine, the team built smaller scale versions of the turbines, of which Larry Page stressed that they needed to crash «at least five» to speed up the learning curve.

While the smaller 75 - meter search area is generally fine for the 50 - 100 kW turbines, since some 85 % of all fatalities are found within that search radius, the search radius must be much wider (200 - 250 meters) for the 2.5 - MW turbines, to achieve valid results.»

The latest version — called the second - generation Sensor Fish — can be used in different kinds of hydro facilities, including unconventional, smaller hydropower plants and conventional dams with either Kaplan or Francis dam turbines.

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The method works by sending exhaust air to the turbine through three smaller exhaust ports at low rpm, quickly creating boost pressure of up to 17.4 psi.

Adjustable guide vanes on the turbine act to combine the benefits of a small and a large exhaust turbocharger.

Adjustable guide vanes on the turbine act to combine the benefits of a «small» and a «large» exhaust...

Only a relatively small power loss is caused by the turbocharger's turbine restricting the flow of exhaust gases and increasing back - pressure.

With 4 valves per cylinder and a variable turbine geometry the common - rail direct injection system of the new small diesel engine operates at a maximum injection pressure of 1600 bar.

The HK GT promised a range of 621 miles, courtesy of a relatively small 20 - kWh battery and a turbine generator working as a range extender, along with a 2.9 - second launch time from a standstill to 62 mph.

A Holset M2 two - stage turbocharger — actually a larger turbine mated to a smaller turbine — provides forced induction (Holset being the name of a supplier Cummins acquired decades ago).

That's thanks to an aerospace - grade aluminum compressor wheel which is 15 percent smaller in diameter, and an advanced turbine wheel 10 percent smaller across, made from a high temperature - resistant, space - age alloy called Inconel (consisting of nickel, chromium, and iron).

Two rows of wind turbines stretched on the horizon, and scattered across the field I counted a dozen small mounds.

With an exhibition area of 1,800 sq metres, the Tanks are more than half as big as the not - small Turbine Hall, and exceed the display space of entire regional galleries, such as the Turner Contemporary in Margate.

Adrian Searle wrote in a five - star review that the installation was «one of the very best Turbine Hall commissions, filling the space with sounds and furies, grand and small events, stillness and movement, noises and light and silence.»

The camera followed the length of the chain, while the performers shouted improvised words or phrases that echoed around the Turbine Hall.3 The bodies that had formerly been confined within the small gallery space stretched into the darkness of the adjoining Turbine Hall.

These pioneering performances are the overlooked predecessors of relational aesthetics that developed in the 1990s — when Rirkrit Tiravanija served food in a gallery, for instance, or Santiago Sierra paid a small group of homeless women the price of a night in a hostel to stand facing a wall in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern for a single day in 2008.

And the «Politicos» can learn a lot from the «Technicians» about, for instance, how the pads that the wind turbines sit on require a certain amount of load - bearing concrete that simply can't be shipped along small county roads that lead to new wind farm locations.

But the Cleveland experts say the much smaller turbines lack the killing force of the wind farms.

Although the efficacy of small wind turbines, especially vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT), is often debated, and the designs dismissed as not being worth their cost or manufacturing resources, but that hasn't stopped people from trying to improve them or apply them to niche uses.

I think that in a sustainable energy economy of the future, most electricity will be generated, stored and used locally, and large centralized generating stations (which by then will be predominantly wind turbine farms and concentrating solar thermal power plants, coal and nuclear having been phased out) will play a much smaller role.

I accept that noise at a level that could cause physical harm would constitute «pollution» but given that wind turbine noise is more of a small background hum at distance of about 400m, that falls far short of a reasonable threshhold for measurable harm.

In order to have that much energy capacity in a single turbine, it will have to have blades more than 650 feet long, which is longer than the length of two football fields and also two and a half times longer than any existing turbine blade (pictured above is a cross section of a smaller version of the blade the team is working on).

With Department of Energy backing, a small offshore wind turbine was launched into Maine waters on Friday.

And Belgium has a new research station, Princess Elisabeth, that it says will be the first to be «zero emission,» 100 percent wind and solar powered, with most of the energy coming from nine small wind turbines.

Of the 10,800 full - time - equivalent (FTE) employees working directly in the sectors, the majority, or 56 per cent, are associated with large - scale onshore wind (turbine output of over 100kW), followed by 29 per cent in offshore wind, whilst 7 — 8 per cent of the workforce is employed in small - scale wind and around the same proportion in wave and tidal energOf the 10,800 full - time - equivalent (FTE) employees working directly in the sectors, the majority, or 56 per cent, are associated with large - scale onshore wind (turbine output of over 100kW), followed by 29 per cent in offshore wind, whilst 7 — 8 per cent of the workforce is employed in small - scale wind and around the same proportion in wave and tidal energof over 100kW), followed by 29 per cent in offshore wind, whilst 7 — 8 per cent of the workforce is employed in small - scale wind and around the same proportion in wave and tidal energof the workforce is employed in small - scale wind and around the same proportion in wave and tidal energy.

At the community or village level, the use of crop residues to power small steam turbine generators to produce electricity can deliver environmental and social benefits in addition to saving carbon.

Though small by today's standards — the wind turbine's blades were less than one third the length of those installed offshore by Deepwater Wind — the 200 kilowatt - capacity turbine produced as much as 11 percent of the island's energy needs during off - peak winter months.

A technology discussion from the installers» perspectives about the current state of small wind turbines and everyday installation problems followed earlier presentations about the «Unrealities of Wind» that aimed at giving advice on how to choose a machine from the wide variety of new machines available in conjunction with the Small Wind Certification Council (Ssmall wind turbines and everyday installation problems followed earlier presentations about the «Unrealities of Wind» that aimed at giving advice on how to choose a machine from the wide variety of new machines available in conjunction with the Small Wind Certification Council (SSmall Wind Certification Council (SWCC).

Although wind - farm developers claim that wind - turbines kill only a small number of birds each year, the statistics compiled by the National Audubon Society say otherwise.