Sentences with phrase «out of wind turbine»

A new material could be the answer to the current maxing out of wind turbine size caused by blade weight.

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«The genius about the artificial island is that you could set up a lot of wind turbines, offshore, out of sight, but still use near shore technologies which are cheaper,» Energinet's Hanne Storm Edlefsen told CNBC's Sustainable Energy.
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Everyone knows that wind turbine which are built on the most windy cost will end up standing still for maybe 50 % of the time, I have a large wind farm next to me right now it's windy and two out of the twelve turbines are turning, most days we have one turning and I've yet to see more then four turning.
are claiming they've got some commitment to green jobs, to alternative energy, and they're standing by while the only wind turbine factory in Britain is closing down, putting hundreds of people out of work on the Isle of Wight,» he said.
One piece of the new system to take their place will be 5,000 wind turbines installed nearly 100 miles out at sea, in water as deep as 130 feet.
Another group, a Kenyan start - up called Access: energy, developed a model to teach Kenyans to make parts of wind turbines out of scrap metal and car parts, reducing the need for outside help should a part of the system break.
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.
It turns out they are indispensable for a range of urgently needed green energy technologies such as wind turbine generators, low - energy lighting, fuel cells, rechargeable batteries, magnetic refrigeration and hydrogen storage.
The company is planning to fit an iron ion battery at a local vineyard to help the growers balance their energy more effectively and get more out of their solar panels and wind turbines.
The consortium points out that the speeds of turbines on land have to be limited to minimise noise, and that the wind flow over water is more constant than over land.
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.
But when the two utilities with agreements to buy power from the 130 - turbine wind farm pulled out in 2015, the terminal was widely panned as a waste of taxpayer funds.
It can absorb and release huge amounts of electricity at the drop of a hat and do so over and over, making it ideal for smoothing out the flow from wind turbines and solar cells.
The only difference was that the originally designed brochures featured a beautiful, professional photograph of wind turbines, while the look - alike brochures created for the study swapped out the photograph with a cartoon.
Colin Palmer, a graduate student at the University of Bristol, arrived at this conclusion by employing his expertise as a turbine engineer to carry out first - of - a kind tests on models of pterosaur wings in a wind tunnel.
She learned how to build wind turbines and solar - powered go - karts, and she made biofuel out of algae.
We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with huge wind turbines does to the global environment.
Manufacturing just five wind turbines produces 1 ton of radioactive residue and 75 tons of toxic, acidic water used to leach out the required neodymium.
She eventually settled on the curator character — whose tone is more a mix of sardonic and wistful than purely accusatory — and reached out to Mr. Postlethwaite after she learned he was trying to get a wind turbine installed on his home.
Brian and Jacob talk about floating wind turbines, a kindler, gentler Burger King, and what the Discovery Channel left out of Frozen Planet.
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.
As Raghu Garud and Peter Karnoe pointed out in their study of the development of wind energy, the US spent the 1970's studying the basic science while the Danish wind industry was out there making turbines, making them work, and making them better.
This doesn't negate the other positive effects of wind turbines, but it certainly means that we should figure out how to make them so that bats are safer.
One architecture studio has an idea about how to house all of those technicians while they're out inspecting offshore wind farms - by building apartments inside the nacelle of the turbines.
It turned out it was a bit more of a hassle than I thought to actually put my own wind turbine on my own island.
They hand out tax subsidies in the billions to Green Energy development of wind turbines and solar panel arrays.
Many of the wind turbines needed to back out fossil fuels in electricity generation worldwide could be produced in currently idled automobile assembly plants in the United States alone.
Nick said that «Norway and Scandinavian countries» (sic) are putting wind turbines out to sea because of health concerns.
Immediately beneath a wind turbine a conversation can easily be conducted without raising one's voice, and often the sound of the breeze in nearby vegetation drowns - out the sound of turbines at distances of a kilometre or more.
More room for out - of - the - way solar panels and wind turbines.
In the case of Deepwater Wind and the turbines off Block Island, some boat captains are reporting a whole new business opportunity has arisen — transporting curious landlubbers out to sea to view the turbines at close range.
Trident Winds plans to build a floating array of about 100 wind turbines, each with a hub height of 400 feet — which works out to up to 600 feet in height when one of the turning blades is at the 12 o'clock position — some 33 nautical miles off Morro Bay.
I like the idea of taking advantage of the comparably dirt cheap cost of erecting land wind turbines and community solar (ocean turbines are another matter) to build a huge amount out.
In the meantime, the Chinese continue to pump out solar modules cheaper than anyone else; their largest wind turbine manufacturer, Sinovel, will likely become one of the world's largest wind turbine manufacturers; and — as we're finding now — if you need billions in financing for a wind farm, China may be more than willing to provide that, too.
When fossil fuel runs out, will it be possible to use the relative trickle of energy which comes from wind turbines and solar panels to mine and fabricate the raw materials necessary to build more solar panels and more wind turbines?
(Drive around the countryside a bit, and you'll see a lot of idle wind turbines out there.
Conversely, taking advantage of battery storage also confers benefits when ramping down a wind turbine, smoothing out the electrical flow into the grid by drawing on batteries to supply power to the grid more evenly.
The outing included not only the chance to see the GE Brilliant 1.6 - 100 turbine (1.6 - megawatt max capacity and 100 - meter rotor diameter) and real - time power management system up close and in action, but to climb 80 meters to the turbine's hub, enter the machine head, and then step outside to see the 100 - meter - diameter turbine rotor and get a birds - eye view of the wind turbine testing facility and surrounding area.
CONNEAUT — The city of Conneaut has not ruled out legal remedies regarding the wind turbine at the lakefront that has been inoperable for more than a year, Law Director Kyle Smith said this week.
Greenies like to talk about «renewables» providing a resilient society, but the amount of energy needed to lift the developing countries out of desperate poverty will not be provided by expensive and dilute power from wind turbines, solar panels, or chicken manure.
«We've made incredible gains since acquiring the property,» Keith Longtin, general manager of Wind Products for GE Power & Water stated during a tour of the facility, pointing out that today's GE turbines are operating at close to 98 % availability, the same as a thermal coal plant.
I want to build a gypsy caravan vardo style type traveling solar / wind turbine powered home, I want to ask you if it's possible to do it out of bamboo, because it's a renewable resource, with a short regrowth, But I need it to be able to winter in the northern USA where it sometimes gets to 55degreese below zero but also be able to travel to Mexico is this a possibility to be able to do in Illinois?
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To force that much money out of the pockets of ratepayers and taxpayers and into the coffers of European turbine manufacturers and Big Fossil / Wind companies like Duke, NextEra and Exelon is folly.
They also seem to take offense at the fact that Dr. Pierpont, in order to study the effects of wind turbines, sought out the victims thusly:
This is rather curious considering that Heartland Farmers have admitted that some of those same neighbours would have agreed to have wind turbines on their land if they could have got more money out of the Ceres proponent.
You can also get this wind turbine painted any color you like, to match the surroundings, to stand out as piece of functional art.
Did this esteemed panel of experts hoist themselves out of their chairs and actually go speak to people who live near wind turbines?
Researchers from Imperial College London, the University of Edinburgh and SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden carried out a global assessment of the world's wind farms, which in total contain an estimated 200,000 turbines.
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