Sentences with phrase «slowing turbine blades»

The research, recently published in the Journal of Wildlife Management, demonstrates that slowing turbine blades to near motionless in low - wind periods significantly reduces bat mortality.»

They tested a revised operating procedure slowing turbine blades to near motionless in low - wind periods significantly reduces bat mortality.

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We also shudder to think what Donald Trump, who thinks that the slow rotating blades of wind turbines miles offshore spoil his golf courses, would make of high - pitched whirring noises in the rarefied air above them.

This could be because like wind turbines, the blades rotate at relatively slow speeds.

Cornelius noted that due to the slow speed at which the blades rotate, marine life is at little risk:» The turbines turn at six to eight revolutions per minute, so are incredibly slow turning and will have zero impact on the surrounding environment.»

Despite the potential collective loss of millions of dollars in electric generation, the U.S. wind energy industry has voluntarily committed to changing how turbines are operated during the bats» fall migration season, slowing blade rotations to fewer than 1 - 3 revolutions a minute, depending on blade length, thereby reducing the risk of collision.

And because the water is slow - moving, the company says, fish can safely avoid the turbines» blades.

Would the energy extraction due to the storm spinning the turbines» blades slow the winds and diminish the hurricane, or would the hurricane destroy the turbines?

The authors simply dismissed actual reported field CFs as irrelevant and not valid because they allegedly apply only to short, «low - power turbines with small diameters in slow - wind areas [less than 7 to 7.5 m / s annual winds]...» The authors, however, fail to explain why the higher power windmills with large diameter blades were not available before, if indeed this combination is wind energyís economic panacea.

If the wind begins to blow too hard, which can threaten the turbines, the software will automatically feather the blades, slowing them down, and direct the coal or natural gas plants to increase their output.