A utility
scale wind turbine uses more than a ton of heavy - duty and lightweight magnets, 700 pounds of which is neodymium.
Industrial wind turbines are an inharmonious use of the land when sited near people's homes; large -
scale wind turbines used for power generation are NOT an agricultural use of the land.
Not exact matches
J.Hohn, your argument applies for manufacturing industries that
use natural resources, or perhaps natural resources like
wind turbines and drone peat afforestation that have room to be
scaled.
Causing heartburn for project applicants developing on tribal land, the Tenth Circuit reversed the District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma's grant of summary judgment and determined that the defendants» large -
scale excavation project, involving site modification and the
use of excavated rock and soil in the installation of
wind turbines, constituted «mining» under federal regulations addressing mineral development on Native... Complete story»
While this strategy was successfully employed for the small Block Island project, it may not prove practical for large -
scale development of offshore
wind in the U.S.. By some estimates, the
use of foreign - installation vessels may increase project costs by as much as $ 20 — 40 million for a 100 -
turbine development.
One of our favorite small -
scale proposals involves
using wind turbines to help solve a pressing rural problem.
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.
This implies Defense Department -
scale budgets for technology development and for implementation of those technologies we already know how to
use —
wind turbines, say.