Sentences with phrase «reduce wind loads»

The building, designed to achieve LEED Platinum certification, will use (not surprisingly) Cradle to Cradle Certified materials and feature rooftop greenhouses to help reduce wind loads as well as provide food production for the local community.

Not exact matches

In strong gusts of crosswind, and depending on the direction and intensity of the wind having an effect on the vehicle, this system varies the wheel load distribution in such a way that the effects of winds are largely compensated or reduced to a minimum.

And far from reducing opportunity for wind and solar power, natural gas provides the reliable base load power necessary to integrate those intermittent sources.

«When properly installed, wind vortex generators energize the flow around a blade's surface and reduce aerodynamic separation, improving the turbine's performance in terms of power, loads and service life.»

That also includes using a definition of «levelized cost» that deliberately ignores the hidden costs of maintaining a normal fuel - based generation grid capable of carrying the entire load because PV and wind (however cheap or expensive they might be when they are working) are literally incapable of working 24 × 7 and at best reduce the rate at which conventional plants consume fuel without reducing or eliminating the need for conventional plants.

Wellinghoff directly countered the industry's oft - heard complaint about meeting «base load» needs, saying that renewables «like wind, solar and biomass would be able to provide enough energy to meet base load capacity and future demand,» since the US can reduce energy usage by 50 percent.

Local nuclear plants (perhaps 23 % of MWh) would supply much of the base load with local solar (thermal is SW deserts and PV) and local wind helping reduce dependence on imports and pumped storage.

The wake of a turbine is a region of lower wind speed and increased turbulence that reduces the power output and increases damaging loads on downwind turbines in its path.

In turn, wind farms can achieve greater power output as an overall plant, and customers can expect to see 5 - 10 percent reduced wake losses and improved mechanical loads due to lower wake turbulence.

Meeting demand during such periods without huge load shedding would require building huge wind / solar capacity which would almost never be used in order to slightly reduce the chances of grid collapse.

Perlwitz et al. (2001) estimate that this feedback reduces the global dust load by roughly 15 %, as dust radiative forcing reduces the downward mixing of momentum within the planetary boundary layer, the surface wind speed, and thus dust emission (Miller et al., 2004a).

Milborow admits that balancing wind variations has the effect of reducing the load factor for thermal plant, but says that this only costs ~ # 2.5 / MWh at 20 % wind, or ~ # 6 / MWh at 40 %.

If you travel with a load secured to the roof of your vehicle, make sure it is situated in the most aerodynamic way to reduce wind drag, which causes your engine to work harder (and decreases your fuel efficiency).