Sentences with phrase «requiring wind turbine blades»

Last year Ohio legislators passed a law requiring wind turbine blades to be at least a quarter - mile from the nearest property line.

Not exact matches

I believe that wind turbines detect lightning strikes because some repair, usually minor, is normally required to the area on the turbine blade where the strike occurred.

Offshore wind facilities, which are currently not in operation in the United States but may become more common, require larger amounts of space because the turbines and blades are bigger than their land - based counterparts.

Because the wind turbines would require a modest amount of spacing between them to allow room for the blades to spin, wind farms would occupy about 0.5 percent of all U.S. land, but this amount is more than 30 times less than that required for growing corn or grasses for ethanol.