Sentences with phrase «raise turbine towers»

Could concrete towers be a practical way to raise turbine towers from today's 80 meters to the steadier winds at 100 meters and taller?

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Blown generators, misbehaving gearboxes and damaged rotors keep turbines from maximizing the energy they draw from nature, raising the question of how to reliably maintain dozens of mammoth towers, some of which rise more than 100 meters above the ground.

More than 170,000 mirrors will gather tremendous amounts of sunlight and focus it on three towers filled with water, raising temperatures to more than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit and producing steam that spins turbines that generate electricity.

The week before glasses of Aquavit were raised to celebrate start - up of Hywind Scotland, a champagne bottle smashed with naval flourish against the tower of France's first floating wind turbine, the EU - backed FloatGen, in the port of Saint - Nazaire (see panel overleaf).

Hydro - Gen, based in France, have produced a low - cost low - maintenance floating marine or river - current energy - converter system, mounted under a platform supported by a catamaran, with a slide - able turbine and generator unit that can be raised out of the water for maintenance on a tower, and which can also be folded down for transport by truck.