Sentences with phrase «sea wind turbines»

Muglia also said turbines in the ocean could help reduce the impact of currents on above - sea wind turbines, such as those planned off the coast of Kitty Hawk.

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GE said that, based on wind conditions at a «typical» site in the German North Sea, one turbine could produce as much as 67 gigawatt hours (GWh) annually, enough power for as many as 16,000 European households.

One piece of the new system to take their place will be 5,000 wind turbines installed nearly 100 miles out at sea, in water as deep as 130 feet.

Wind turbines, for example, are most effective when placed out at sea.

In addition to enabling drilling in ever - deeper waters worldwide, robot subs will also be instrumental in ramping up the installation of offshore turbines that generate electricity from the strong winds and tides found at sea, says Michel, one of the main organizers of the annual Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center's 2010 International ROV Competition, which challenges students to complete underwater missions using ROVs they design and build.

But unlike an oil platform, the floating wind turbine would have to better restrain the sea's pitch, roll and heaving motions.

Then it's time to head to Nusa Penida's highest point, about 520 metres above sea level, where wind turbines have been installed.

Our seas will need to have tens of thousands to these wind turbines deployed at several per week to do the job in time and only shallow offshore is viable at the present time and that is inline with existing baseload fossil fuel coal and gas fired power plants along with existing nuclear ones to.

Demand is not as sexy as giant wind turbine platforms being towed out to sea or strung up on steel kites into the upper atmosphere, but demand side effciences are faster, less costly, and more effective.

Floating wind turbines can be placed away from the coast in deeper water as they don't need to be anchored to sea floor - mounted towers, which are typically limited to a water depth of up to 260 ft (80 m).

The rear part of a nacelle casing on an Adwen M5000 turbine broke off and fell in the sea at the 60MW Alpha Ventus wind farm (pictured) in the German North Ssea at the 60MW Alpha Ventus wind farm (pictured) in the German North SeaSea.

German television has broadcast images of the damaged Adwen M5000 turbine at the 60MW Alpha Ventus offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

Nick said that «Norway and Scandinavian countries» (sic) are putting wind turbines out to sea because of health concerns.

A Goldwind 1.5 - megawatt turbine with PMDD technology that was erected for research and development purposes in the Bohai Sea in 2007 is still «doing the job it's designed to do, producing power from wind.»

Goldwind is incorporating what it has learned from the Bohai Sea machine into the design of a 5 - to -6-megawatt turbine it intends to eventually supply to offshore wind developers as that market ramps up.

In the case of Deepwater Wind and the turbines off Block Island, some boat captains are reporting a whole new business opportunity has arisen — transporting curious landlubbers out to sea to view the turbines at close range.

British Wind Turbines at sea (No Nimbys) the Generators 300 foot high are Air cooled.

«Hywind», the first full - scale floating wind turbine, has been tested in the sea since 2009.

The United Kingdom has approved plans for the world's largest offshore wind farm: up to 300 turbines with a capacity of up to 1.8 gigawatts in the North Sea.

A recently published report on deep water offshore wind energy says that floating turbines in the depths in the North Sea are the future of wind energy - which could power Europe 4 times over www.ewea.org/report/deep - water

Imagine a windy day over the North Sea that makes the wind turbines in the area rotate heavily and produce large amounts of electricity.

The wind farm will use Siemens turbines in North Sea waters at depths of around 95 meters (m) to 120 m — much deeper than the 20 m to 50 m at which conventional offshore wind turbines are installed in Europe today.

Of course, there are also wind turbines, on land and at sea, hydroelectric power plants and biogas plants.

The cost of offshore wind farms, until recently the most expensive mainstream renewable technology, will slide 71 percent, making turbines based at sea another competitive form of generation.

Additionally, offshore wind turbines on semi-submersible foundations can be assembled on shore and then towed out to sea fully assembled — or taken back to shore for repairs — eliminating the need for expensive specialized vessels and reducing maintenance costs.

Installing wind turbines on the high seas is the holy grail for generating renewable energy.

Thousands of GE turbines on land as well as in the sea are already using LM Wind's blades.

The failure of retaining bolts led to a nacelle casing falling off an Adwen M5000 turbine at the 60MW Alpha Ventus offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, according to the project's co-operator EWE.

But the oceanography of the east coast sea bed is conducive to putting turbines miles out at sea, where winds are also conveniently stronger, and a 400 - foot tall turbine 12 miles away will appear as a short twig sticking out of the ocean.

Figure 3 All of these measurements will help scientists and developers better understand air - sea interactions and their impact on how much wind energy a turbine could capture at particular offshore sites.

Denmark was first to put wind turbines in the sea, but today it ranks a distant second to the United Kingdom in total offshore wind generating capacity.

Instruments have long been sent out to sea to measure winds on the ocean's surface, but the blade tips of offshore wind turbines can reach up to 600 feet above the surface, where winds can behave very differently.

Of course, that summary omits all the caveats about mortalities Lovich et al might have missed, about the Mesa Wind Project being one development in a sea of larger turbines, about absence of evidence not being evidence of absence, fewer eagles per year and so forth, so wind fans who pride themselves on their science literacy might have second thougWind Project being one development in a sea of larger turbines, about absence of evidence not being evidence of absence, fewer eagles per year and so forth, so wind fans who pride themselves on their science literacy might have second thougwind fans who pride themselves on their science literacy might have second thoughts.

To take an example that's closer to the topic of wind power and wildlife, consider a 2014 study published in the journal Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science that looked at whether gulls and other sea birds avoid offshore wind turbines off the coast of the British Isles.

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In terms of renewables, there would be no need to cover Germany with wind farms» We achieve the biggest capacities by replacing smaller wind turbines on land with more powerful ones and by generating wind energy in the North and Baltic Seas».

Deep - sea wind, as being pioneered in the EU and now possibly in the US, is certainly unproven so far, and the cost of installation are higher in deep water, but the new generation of floating wind turbines may yet make it possible to exploit the very large resource further out at lower costs.

«DONG Energy Hits Milestone with 1,000 Wind Turbines at Sea.»

NDR German public television reported on the damaged Adwen M5000 turbine at the 60MW Alpha Ventus offshore North Sea wind farm off the northern coast of Germany.

GeoSea has kicked off turbine installation at the Otary's 309MW Rentel wind farm in the Belgian North Sea.

Air has a known density (around 1.23 kg / m3 at sea level), so the mass of air hitting a wind turbine (which sweeps a known area) each second is given by the following equation:

Fluor entered into a contract with Greater Gabbard Offshore Winds Ltd. (GGOWL) to supply the foundations and infrastructure necessary to support 140 wind turbines for the Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm in the North Sea, some 26 kilometers off the coast of Suffolk, Englwind turbines for the Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm in the North Sea, some 26 kilometers off the coast of Suffolk, EnglWind Farm in the North Sea, some 26 kilometers off the coast of Suffolk, England.

The operator of the 60MW German offshore wind test field Alpha Ventus is preparing to exchange the nacelle of an Adwen AD 5 - 116 turbine, part of which for still unknown reasons fell into the North Sea in early April.

As the world leader in offshore wind, Ørsted has a track record of introducing new wind technology at sea, including the latest generations of wind turbines deployed on commercial scale projects:

The basic design of this particular SWASH vessel is to have wind turbines located to the rear (or front, or front and rear) of the vessel and solar panel arrays mounted high on a lightweight structure as shown (above), several meters above the sea, with one fixed (central) panel and two moveable wings.

A team of researchers from the the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) developed the new model of a floating structure for offshore wind turbines, called WindCrete, that is capable of being anchored at much greater sea depths.

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Greens think it is «sustainable» to uglify scenic hills with whining wind towers, power poles, transmission lines and access roads, and to clutter pleasant estuaries and shallow seas with more bird - slicing turbines.

generates reliable electricity... • Modern wind turbines are extremely robust machines designed to operate in all types of climate — in the desert, the Arctic and the middle of the sea.