Sentences with phrase «spinning turbine»

When they fly too close, they collide with the spinning turbine blades and are killed.

As the waves recede, the pressure inside the column drops, drawing a stream of air through the same upper opening and providing another impetus for spinning the turbine.

The statue is mounted on an LED - lit base «with internal, slow - spinning turbine from the UAC facility on Mars.»

Made of high - quality PVC and modeled from actual in - game 3D files, the Revenant stands on an LED - lit base with internal, slow - spinning turbine from the UAC facility on Mars.

The syngas ignites inside the turbine, spinning the turbine blades that generate about half the plant's electricity.

Most concentrating solar power plants with a storage component use molten salt to save up heat and release it at night to boil water and spin a turbine.

The cumulative heat from this process boils water into steam, which spins a turbine to create electricity.

Harnessing the power of water flowing downhill to spin turbines is the most convenient energy source in many parts of the world, and it's a clean, renewable source of energy to boot.

Most systems use a heat exchanger to boil clean water for steam to spin a turbine.

As in a conventional fossil fuel or nuclear power plant, that steam spins turbines, which generate electricity.

Hot rocks at depth boil the water into steam, which rises back to the surface to spin a turbine and generate electricity.

After geothermal power plants pump up a hot brine — water and dissolved salts from underground — and use its heat to make steam to spin a turbine and generate electricity, Simbol would borrow the still warm fluid for roughly 90 minutes.

Today's nuclear power plants use the heat from uranium fission reactions to do nothing more complicated than boil water, making pressurized steam that spins turbines to generate electricity.

Well you -LSB-'ve] got to have this design around it, what's the called blanket; and what the hope is, is that the neutron will go out and the blanket is made of some very thick steel - type material, and every so often, a neutron will just hit an atomic nucleus in the steel blanket and that hit will then make the steel hotter and that hot steel, and then you have, almost like in a car engine, you have some fluid, water could work, going through the steel, it takes the energy away, that water is hot, it goes and spins the turbine, okay that's great.

How do you make that boil water and spin a turbine and have that generate electricity that then goes out through the grid?

A dual - volute turbocharger with electronic boost control sourced from BorgWarner uniquely sends high - pressure exhaust gas through opposite sides of the turbocharger housing to spin the turbine.

La Florida is a solar thermal plant -LSB-...] that uses parabolic troughs to heat liquid in tubes, which in turn spins turbines and produces electricity.

When electricity is needed, the molten salt is pumped through a heat exchanger to turn water into steam that spins a turbine to generate electricity.

When it comes to getting a wind project off the ground, a lot of planning and research takes place years before the wind actually starts to spin a turbine to produce electricity.

A recent National Wind Coordinating Committee (NWCC) review of peer - reviewed research found evidence of bird and bat deaths from collisions with wind turbines and due to changes in air pressure caused by the spinning turbines, as well as from habitat disruption.

I believe there is a simple solution to bird and bat fatalities also, by mounting cheap passive ultrasonic «whistles» on turbine blades, to create a sound warning shield, keeping flying wildlife away from any spinning turbines.

Organic materials are processed and burned to create steam to spin a turbine that generates electricity.

More than 170,000 mirrors will gather tremendous amounts of sunlight and focus it on three towers filled with water, raising temperatures to more than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit and producing steam that spins turbines that generate electricity.

We should have a lot more reactors spinning turbines, and use natural gas for more productive uses.

This hot water is then used to spin turbines that are connected to generators, producing electricity.

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?

Once the vortex is established, the pressure difference between the surrounding ambient air and the reduced pressure at the base of the vortex becomes the driving force to spin the turbines.

Still spinning turbines should create turbulent mixing of the warmer air at circa 100M with the cooler ground surface.

I am using water from my stream to spin the turbine.

In turn, this creates steam that spins a turbine that generates electricity.

Not exact matches

Jet engines, power turbines, motors, drives, the inside of a locomotive, a CT scanner — they all spin.

Each spin of the turbine — one of a handful of units that tower over North Fork's wineries — has helped make the vineyard greener.

Researchers videotaped the snow particles as the wind turbine spun to show airflow patterns.

The machine whirred like a turbine as a coil made of 90 kg of copper and aluminum began spinning to generate the current.

Reciprocating steam engines simply could not produce enough spinning power to deliver the smooth current necessary to make large - scale electricity grids feasible; by the early 1900s, turbines had made them a reality.

Barring unforeseen regulatory obstacles, the turbines could be spinning by 2011.

Could purple wind turbines decrease the carnage wreaked in the night by looming towers with spinning blades on Halloween's iconic flying mammals?

As more electric vehicles hit the road and more wind turbines start spinning, the demand for batteries and their raw materials will explode.

The turbines come in two main varieties of rotors — the part of the generator that catches the wind and spins — and share many of the same advantages.

If your pinwheel were a wind turbine, and spinning counterclockwise turned wind energy into electrical energy, then it would most efficiently produce electricity when wind blows directly into the cups.

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Vertical turbines also tend not to be as tall and have a steady gravity load, meaning the effects of gravity don't change as the turbine spins, unlike in horizontal axis turbines.

Savonius rotor turbines are another design, where air scoops are mounted on the shaft of the generator, forming a spinning cylinder.

Can wind turbines help to get the U.S. economy spinning again?

Where the Darrieus turbine spins by generating lift, the Savonius rotors spin from drag.

It can also throw off the balance of a wind turbine's spinning blades, putting tremendous forces on shafts and machinery, leading to failures or shut - downs.

But when the motor is not using all the turbine's power, the surplus electricity will be «stored» in a flywheel that spins at up to 58 000 rpm in a vacuum housing.

The birds are killed when flying into the path of spinning wind turbine blades.

The devices wouldn't rely on anything spinning or turning like wind turbines, but would instead harness the energy in the vibration of wind, seismic activity and more.

Inspired by early automatic movements developed by Abraham - Louis Perrelet in the 18th century, the Turbine family features a free - spinning bladed rotor above the fixed dial.