Sentences with phrase «scale wind means»

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This also means that other generators, such as those powered by fossil fuels, can scale their power output in advance rather than rapidly ramping up or slowing down to compensate for wind, increasing their efficiency and improving the grid's reliability.

The National Weather Service assigned the twister a preliminary ranking of EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, meaning the second most powerful category of tornado with winds up to 200 mph.

Paratroopa hits the ball at the middle height, meaning that its balls are moderately affected by wind compared to lower hitting players, but it can scale elevations and trees more easily than lower hitting players.

My speculation — wind shear defusing hurricanes but pumping up tornados — didn't seem apt, the size / scale is so different between the two kinds of storms that wind shear means something different for each type.

This means that as the dense cold air flows towards the low spot and pools there the influence of the large scale wind decreases to zero in a shallow layer near the surface.

So far, in the UK, that has primarily meant large - scale offshore wind, rooftop solar and what you might call medium - scale solar farms.

The True Cost of clean, «green» wind experiment — Pollution on a Disastrous Scale (There is approximately 2000 pounds of Rare Earths per MW — which means 4000 — 6000 pounds per typical current turbine):

The potential for breakthroughs in solar PV technology, such as next - generation thin film materials, reduced capital intensity of manufacturing capacity as well as continued improvements in the scale and capacity factor of wind technology means the levelized cost of energy could continue to fall.

Adding «renewables» to the current electric grid infrastructure also means that it must be rebuilt at huge cost since new large scale «renewables» must be placed where the sun and wind are, which is not where the users are usually located.

If we try to avoid this necessity, we'll just wind up blathering on about our favorite technical fixes, as if they could be rapidly scaled up and deployed by means of some friction - free process in which the overall social contract remains essentially unrevised.

So, nothing bad so far, nothing bad for a long, long time means the prudent thing to do is to stop deploying and subsidizing wind and solar (Europe is scaling back now), no new carbon taxes and even repeal recent ones (Australia, Canada and soon to be Europe), allow more exploration for natural gas (the US and soon to be Europe and more), build nukes (the rational).

Not only will they mean an uptick in their own right (the Southeast is getting its first large - scale wind farm thanks to an Amazon commitment to buy energy from it), but they also create a sizable segment of the economy that has an interest in ensuring a consistent, stable and ambitious policy environment that moves us toward a clean energy future.

The economies of scale mean it is very difficult for home generation to compete with wind and solar farms.

You see traditionally, unlike wind, large - scale solar has often meant displacing otherwise productive land, to the point where some areas like Ontario are looking at banning solar from class «a» and class «b» farmland.

This late addition to the mix should mean that wind — which made up 6.3 % of overall generation — and utility scale solar — which made up 1.3 % — should grow even further in terms of actual generation next year.

I suggested that future large scale hydrogen production was one of the potential means by which we could store energy produced by non dispatch - able sources such as wind and solar and make them viable.

The basic problems with using wind energy to replace fossil fuels are the following: — Low and erratic availability (22 - 26 %)-- No practical means of storing the energy on the scale required if wind energy becomes more than the minute portion of our energy production it is now.

via: The Guardian For the record... from the access to the report I have, the inclusion of this picture is not meant to be an indictment of this specific wind turbine (some turbines performed better than others), but is just representative of the scale of turbine discussed.

The effects of mesoscale eddies on the main subtropical thermocline are explored using a simply configured wind - and buoyancy - driven primitive equation numerical model in conjunction with transformed Eulerian mean diagnostics and simple scaling ideas and closure schemes.