Sentences with phrase «over wind turbines»

Without discussing the rights and wrongs of the specific case, Donald Trump's tantrum over wind turbines is a classic example that what happens on one parcel of land / ocean can have a direct impact on the interests or well - being of the people who surround it.

(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.

The incident clearly raises public safety concerns over wind turbines located within range of roads and houses, given the potential danger of being hit by ice projectiles.

«Chuh,» we tut to ourselves as we read their outrage over a wind turbine that will slash the value of their property.

Energy has become a contentious and politicized topic, spurring activism, whether it be the fossil fuel divestment campaign, Keystone pipeline protests, or concern over wind turbine harm to birds.

Keep in mind that the wind will keep blowing over a wind turbine site long after a typical shale gas well has reached the end of its useful lifespan, and you can see why some shale investors, notably Shell, are beginning to pull back.

Not exact matches

Her reputation as a conciliator was part of her appeal during the 2013 leadership contest, a skill she's used to make peace with public school teachers angry over wage - freeze legislation and appointing herself agriculture minister to mend fences with communities upset over decisions to cancel the slots - at - racetracks program and the installation of industrial wind turbines.

Over 7,000 Iowans like Bill Nosbisch are employed doing jobs like maintaining wind turbines, monitoring wind - farm systems, and making wind blades.

Where silos used to top the landscape, they are now towered over by wind turbines.

These offshore wind projects represent over 5,000 MW of offshore development with turbine sizes ranging from 3.0 to 6.0 MW, along with a transmission project that could carry up to 7,000 MW.

Denmark's Vestas, the world's top wind turbine maker, said on Thursday it was pleased the final U.S. tax bill retained production tax credits for wind energy projects after concerns over Continue Reading

Over the years, I have seen first hand the wind turbines that power the visitor center in Puerto Rico, employees riding bicycles around Martini & Rossi in Pessione, Italy, and our distillery, Bombay Gin at Laverstoke, that is a beacon to sustainability today.

The state determined that an area encompassing just over 1 million acres can accommodate wind turbines at least 21 miles from land to «ensure that, for the vast majority of the time, turbines would have no discernible or visible impact from the casual viewer on the shore.»

Chris Huhne yesterday stoked the row over the Coalition's cap on immigration - claiming it could jeopardise plans to open a new # 100million wind - turbine factory in Britain.

Vestas wind turbine manufacturers have been granted a possession order after going to court for a second time today to evict the workers who have been barricaded in its offices for over a fortnight.

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.

Over several sleepless nights he calculated how much power a wind turbine at altitude could gather.

And all of that production means that China is bearing the burden of the pollution that can go along with the manufacture of such renewable energy for other countries — whether the acid rain — forming sulfur dioxide emitted from making the steel in a wind turbine's blade or the noxious chemicals left over after manufacturing specialized silicon, or glass, that can turn sunshine into electricity.

Over the past 20 years, for example, householders in Germany have embraced renewable energy initiatives, adding them to their properties: there are solar panels and wind turbines everywhere.

While not - in - my - neighborhood objections are one obstacle to wind power (as exemplified by this year's fuss over proposed wind turbines off Cape Cod), there are also engineering problems to confront.

Host Yul Kwon, a former telecommunications attorney and winner of the Survivor 2006 season, guides viewers on a sweeping tour of the nation that has them flying over California's largest reservoir (at left), descending into a coal mine in Wyoming, and perching atop a wind turbine in Washington State.

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.

Even as researchers at NIF inch toward higher energy yields every night, outside, another fusion reactor crests every morning between the wind turbines on the hills surrounding Livermore Valley, taunting them over the horizon.

Sandia's work has implications for the growing worlds of wind turbines and electric vehicles, where companies seek an edge over the competition.

Floating turbines hold huge promise for capturing wind energy over Earth's oceans.

Sprinkled over every continent are the totems of a new era of power: wind turbines and solar energy collectors.

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.

To establish their results, the team input actual, time - resolved wind speed data into a numerical simulation that determined the total amount of energy captured by a turbine over a year of operation.

«Wind turbine blade manufacturing consists of a labor - intensive set of highly distributed manual operations including layup of very high volumes of material, infusion, secondary bonding and demolding for many sub-assemblies over a vast manufacturing floor area.

Building on its BP Solar business — which BP expects to hit revenues of $ 1 billion in 2008 — BP Alternative Energy manages an investment program in solar, wind, hydrogen and combined cycle gas turbine power generation, which the company predicts could amount to $ 8 billion over the next 10 years.

The government's review of the UK energy supply published today (26 / July) highlights the dreadful performance of wind power, with over 1830 turbines with combined capacity of 2GW reducing fuel consumption in (and emissions from) UK power stations by tiny and irrelevant fraction of one per cent.

Last year represented an annual record with 52.8 GW of wind turbines capacity installed worldwide, a 48 % increase compared to 2013 and 17 % over the 2012 record of 45.2 GW.

Retrofitted wind turbines could produce as much as 50 percent more power over time, CEO John McDonald states.

More specifically, a total of 169 wind turbines were installed during the second quarter over four states.

Germany has over 38 gigawatts of installed wind turbine capacity, but they were delivering just 500 MW on Friday morning.

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I wonder if that study takes into account that EVs and plug - in hybrids become cleaner over time as coal - fired plants are replaced with natural gas - fired plants, wind turbines, and solar plants.

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«some countries are heavily populated, and many dislike the sight of wind turbines over their landscapes»

-LSB-[# 113 Barton, How unimaginable it is to have a cluster of 1 million wind turbines over an apt oceanic location, I wonder how much energy that would produce?

Some countries don't have the luxury of vast tracks of lands (to place the pillars on??? Cappich???) the question of ownership, grid placements, like in the UK, some countries are heavily populated, and many dislike the sight of wind turbines over their landscapes.

If you only read the U.S. press, you'd think that renewable energy is the most environmentally and socially devastating idea we'd ever had — paving over deserts, killing birds in wind turbines, promoting communism, fascism and moral depravity of all sorts, and now, threatening global catastrophe via overpopulation — and did you know that species extinction in the tropics is all due to the expansion of biofuels for export?

The fixation over the same generation of horizontal axis turbines to be placed all over the world as the solution is a bit passe, there are other ways to harvest the wind.

All energy capture and distribution capital, like solar panels or wind turbines, has to make enough excess usable energy (above the consumption demand) to replace itself and maintain itself over its lifetime.

Reuters reported Friday that the «Danish government proposals on Friday called for sourcing just over half of its electricity from wind turbines by 2020 and all of its energy from renewable sources in 2050.

I can also say with authority that one of the windiest places in California, called the Altamont Pass, is densely populated with wind turbines, and of the many dozens of times I have driven over that pass, wind turbines have been mostly sitting idle.

It was recently reported that «wind turbines kill over 600,000 birds annually.»

They involve billions of dollars of subsidies of fossil fuel industries, of airport expansion and of road building, regulations which favour dirty technologies over clearn ones, granting planning permission for coal fire stations but refusing it for wind turbines, etc..

On the issue of health, debate will continue over whether wind turbines cause sickness or unnecessary noise.

While right now wind power has overtaken nuclear in China, and wind should keep growing rapidly, it takes a lot longer to build a reactor than a wind turbine, so these number will likely look different over time.