Sentences with phrase «scale turbine designs»
But that quietness comes at a price: around $ 12,000 installed on the roof and hooked to the grid compared with as little as $ 4,000 for some other small - scale turbine designs.
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In fact, such small - scale wind turbines are typically more about green design than actual energy generation, although the American Wind Energy Association predicts robust growth of as much as 20 percent in the area as a result of local and state tax incentives.
From vast outdoor public sculptures such as the Angel of the North and Mark Wallinger's soon to be realised White Horse to the many projects designed to enliven Tate Modern's vast, bare Turbine Hall, the scale of art just keeps getting bigger.
The advances in wind turbine design that offer cheap electricity from wind help explain why some 22 states now have commercial scale wind farms pumping electricity into the local grid.
The next steps, says Dabiri, «are to scale up the field demonstration and to improve upon the off - the - shelf wind - turbine designs used for the pilot study.
The Libellula (dragonfly) wind turbine, designed by the architects at the Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) in collaboration with Italy's Enel Green power, could be a viable choice for small - scale electricity generation, with the ability to produce up to 55Kw (sufficient to power up to 15 homes).
He said he expected the experience to come on Hywind Scotland would be key to the development of the OEM's so - called «1X» 10MW - plus turbine model for floating wind, just as Siemens Gamesa's involvement in the Hywind 1 project had informed its technology development strategy for its 6MW design — a model now scaled up to over 8MW.
4 Issue 4) that «offshore vertical - axis wind turbines offer the potential for a break through in offshore wind energy availability and reduced life cycle costs due to their design characteristics of few moving parts and the sitting of the generator at the base level potentially allowing large - scale direct drive.