Sentences with phrase «small turbine models»

Fifty - four small turbine models are offered commercially in the United States for applications including homes, schools, commercial and industrial facilities, telecommunications, farms and ranches, and communities.

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Like older models, they will use uranium fission to heat water and drive a turbine, but these reactors will be smaller, simpler to build, and each will add more than 1100 megawatts of capacity to the region's power grid when they come online in 2016 or 2017 — without emitting carbon dioxide.

Instead of starting with a full sized model of the turbine, the team built smaller scale versions of the turbines, of which Larry Page stressed that they needed to crash «at least five» to speed up the learning curve.

Smaller scale turbines used to power a home or business are available and new models for rooftop installations are also in production, including vertical - axis turbines that have a smaller, lower profile than horizontal axis tuSmaller scale turbines used to power a home or business are available and new models for rooftop installations are also in production, including vertical - axis turbines that have a smaller, lower profile than horizontal axis tusmaller, lower profile than horizontal axis turbines.

These megaturbines are reported to be emitting more low - frequency noise (LFN) than smaller models, and this causes more people to be affected, and over greater distances, by the usual symptoms of the wind turbine syndrome: insomnia, headaches, nausea, stress, poor ability to concentrate, irritability, etc, leading to poorer health and a reduced immunity to illness.

The 65 - foot - tall VolturnUS 1:8 prototype is a small - scale model of the giant 6 - megawatt turbines the University of Maine's Advanced Structures and Composites Center and its partners in the DeepCWind Consortium hope to have in the water someday.

On the other hand, if China and other countries develop models of small wind turbines, even without subsidies, maybe people will have solution for local electric energy problems.

While domestic turbine manufacturers have mostly been limited to producing turbines 1.5 MW in size or smaller, plans have been purchased for larger models and Chinese development of domestic prototypes is beginning.