Sentences with phrase «small scale wind»

Used small scale wind tunnel and dynamometer for drag analysis of proposed tubular airfoil cross-section for use as a bicycle frame, and gained working knowledge of oscilloscopes, multi-meters, thermocouples, flow meters, and data acquisition systems.

Here at TreeHugger and over on Planet Green we've covered just about every way to get green energy into your home that you can imagine: Solar panel installation, green energy programs, solar power system leases, small scale wind turbines, micro-hydro power.

A: Yes, Flanagan and Sun Inc. has installed a number of small scale wind turbines.

small scale vertical axis wind turbines don't generate very much power and small scale wind turbines on city buildings DO NOT WORK.

It was developed using microscale modelling to capture small scale wind variability, allowing for better estimates of the aggregated wind resources.

Not exact matches

The Federal Reserve — unfazed by recent selloffs in emerging markets or disappointing U.S. job gains in December — said it would scale back its bond - buying program for the second time in six weeks, pressing ahead with a strategy to wind down the purchases in small and steady steps.

Industrial - scale wind projects off the coast of Massachusetts, as well as smaller community - scale, land - based wind projects, continue to be proposed.

It's not so much that Communism itself is evil (a form of it was practiced on a small scale by religious communities in North America in the 19th century), but that Communist states tended to wind up as authoritarian and repressive dictatorships.

Joy: But at least in that situation, you know, when we're reaching, we're starting to come to an inflexion point where distributing renewable energy will be as cheap or cheaper than the grid; because solar and batteries and small - scale wind will start crossing over.

«To put this in some kind of context, if those small scale eddies did not increase with wind stress then the saturation of carbon dioxide in the Southern Ocean sink would occur twice as rapidly and more heat would enter our atmosphere and sooner.»

With a vertical spatial resolution of 10 meters, the new system could measure small - scale wind phenomena such as wind shear and the wake turbulence created by an aircraft.

Ray Baughman, Ph.D., took a bundle of nylon fibers about the width of ten strands of human hair and wound them into a long, tight coil, just like an old - fashioned telephone cord but on a much smaller scale.

The ultimate objective of the collaboration is to establish a suite of tools that includes X-ray imaging and small laboratory experiments, computer - based analysis and simulation tools, as well as large - scale high - heat and wind - tunnel tests.

These small cliffs, crevices and canyons are on a grand enough scale to protect plants from grazers, predators and the drying power of sun and wind alike.

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 incentiwind 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 incentiWind Energy Association predicts robust growth of as much as 20 percent in the area as a result of local and state tax incentives.

As a long - time green campaigner, Tony Juniper was the obvious man to write it — and he has the wisdom to leave us with hope, as we contemplate the rise of small - scale hydropower and onshore wind energy, as well as sustainable, circular economies.

Cassini UVIS observations revealed recently the presence of small - scale structures in the dayside main auroral emissions indicative of magnetopause Kelvin - Helmholtz instabilities, which are key elements of the solar wind - magnetosphere viscous interaction (Grodent et al. 2011).

Alternatively to solar wind driven reconnection, the viscous interaction of the solar wind with the planetary magnetosphere, which involves magnetic reconnection on a small scale (Delamere & Bagenal 2013), influences Saturn's magnetopause dynamics.

PNNL is a recognized leader in developing materials for energy storage, be it grid - scale batteries used to store energy from the sun or wind for later use, or smaller batteries used for transportation.

Although Jaws wound up ushering in an era where bloody, explosive spectacles dominate the summer moviegoing season, Spielberg's film is clearly working on a much smaller scale.

After an auspicious start with small - scale gangster pulp (the «Pusher» trilogy) and stylish portraits of brutal men («Bronson,» «Valhalla Rising»), Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn has turned to the world of wispy ingénue models in Los Angeles for his latest, «The Neon Demon.»

The goal is to offer the public information about local power generation with small - scale wind turbines and other sources.

For her current solo show, «Into The Wind,» Kowch also made a series of small paintings that are intimate in scale but rich in detail and narrative implications.

The other factors, storm dynamics, wind shear, vertical temperature profile, humidity, etc, can be added to the parameterization, but should be subject to small scale validation (i.e. weather forecasting).

In addition I would point out that small scale distributed wind and PV are ideal solutions for rural electrification in the developing world, in countries which don't have the resources to build giant power plants of any kind, or to build the grids to distribute electricity from large centralized power plants.

The testing of a small - scale wind tower in Castine is the second phase of a five - phase plan (they hope) will end with the implementation of full - scale offshore wind farms about 20 miles off Maine's coast.

Of the 10,800 full - time - equivalent (FTE) employees working directly in the sectors, the majority, or 56 per cent, are associated with large - scale onshore wind (turbine output of over 100kW), followed by 29 per cent in offshore wind, whilst 7 — 8 per cent of the workforce is employed in small - scale wind and around the same proportion in wave and tidal energy.

But the sober message about wind and solar applies to all renewables: All renewables, much as I love them, deliver only a small power per unit area, so if we want renewable facilities to supply power on a scale at all comparable to our consumption, those facilities must be big.

Successive studies have shown that CCS is generally more expensive than old hydro and on - shore wind but generally competitive with utility - scale solar PV, geothermal, and new hydro while being lower in cost than small - scale PV, off - shore wind, nuclear, and the many other nascent technologies — especially when the real cost of filling - in for intermittency is included.

Small - scale and local wind generator companies have received 10 % of all subsidies.

Now that the Coalition has come out in favour of rooftop (domestic) solar — confirming its intention to maintain the Small - Scale Renewable Scheme (SRES)-- Labor's rejection of any deal involving cuts to the LRET can be seen for what it is: an effort to protect the wind industry, in which it holds a financial interest.

Although it would be nice to have more localized wind and solar — small - scale, thank you

Strategies are provided for both large - scale wind projects connected to transmission lines and small - scale projects intended for on - site use.

These were used to quantify correlations and lags of heavy / extreme rain with extremes in small - scale wind convergence / divergence.

This is about small and community scale wind projects.

The rate varies greatly with surface wind velocity, salinity / density gradient stability and CO2 concentration has a small impact on the rate which can be significant on multi-century and millennial scales.

In 2015, the small - scale target was introduced, which provides financial incentives to install solar technology, wind turbines, hydro and air - source heat pumps.

«Changes in extreme wind conditions related to small scale hurricane - type storms can not be skillfully detected in models that have a resolution to [o] coarse to resolve th [ese] storms»

* Changes in extreme wind conditions related to small scale hurricane - type storms can not be skillfully detected in models that have a resolution to coarse to resolve this storms.

Projects that are both low carbon and have low environmental and social impacts, such as solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, and some forms of sustainable biomass and small - scale hydro are common sources of clean, just renewable energy.

In fact, recent data indicates that small - scale and community - based wind projects have 3.5 times the economic benefit for local communities because the owners typically reside where the farm has been built.

The report includes all biomass and waste - to - energy, geothermal, and wind generation projects of more than 1MW; all hydropower projects of between 1MW and 50MW; all wave and tidal energy projects; all biofuel projects with a capacity of one million liters or more per year; and all solar projects, with those less than 1MW estimated separately and referred to as small - scale projects, or small distributed capacity.

Small - scale, grid - connected, solar and wind projects usually benefit from quicker procedures.

AEMO notes that small - scale generation investment has increased rapidly over the last three years, the Large - scale Renewable Energy Target (LRET) is driving continued investment in wind generation capacity, and average spot market prices have been falling in every region since 2007 — 08.

In November 2003, the South African Government published the White Paper on Renewable Energy setting a target of 10,000 GWh renewable energy contribution to final energy consumption by 2013, to be produced mainly from biomass, wind, solar and small - scale hydro.

«The robustness of the analysis to the criterion for «calm» implies that the estimated overall trends are insensitive to boundary layer structure and small - scale advection, and to siting, instrumentation, and observing practices that increasingly influence temperatures as winds become lighter.»

The complementary solicitations by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the New York Power Authority will invest up to $ 1.5 billion in wind, commercial solar and solar arrays, small and large - scale hydro, fuel cell and other technologies.

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GL's Stute said using retrofitted oil and gas industry vessels will work with prototype and smaller projects in the earliest stage of U.S. offshore development but «for building a large scale wind farm to a very tight time schedule» he is dubious.