Sentences with phrase «such large turbines»

By that point, assuming the project's engineers overcome the numerous technological challenges of building such large turbines, we may be able to have both our unspoiled views and green power from offshore wind farms.

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Industrial magnets can be found in electric vehicle engines and in larger industrial motors such as wind turbines.

While this dwarfs the number of turbines in other countries, the energy demand of such a large nation is significantly higher.

Based on the findings, the researchers suggest either designing wind - turbine rotors to minimize turbulence or siting wind farms where natural atmospheric turbulence is high, such as the U.S. Midwest or large parts of northern Europe and China, to cut down on any surface - temperature impacts, if necessary.

The dashboard draws inspiration from larger models such as the E-Class and S - Class, offering a free - standing Widescreen display, air vents in a sporty turbine - look, 64 - color ambient lighting, as well as improved materials and new color combinations.

The gantry crane that once served the power station remains high overhead in the Turbine Hall as a tool for moving large - scale sculpture such as the commissioned works by Louise Bourgeois that now fill the east end of this space.

There are also protocols for the windfarm operators to preventively and gradually shut off wind turbines in such a case, so no large amounts of power will be suddenly and unexpectedly lost.

After all, not only are turbines becoming larger, and installed in greater numbers in individual projects or through extending existing project many other variables have to be taken into account, such as the geology, wind directions and speed, seasonal changes, temperatures to name some.

As such, the Floating Wind Joint Industry Project focuses on unique challenges for large - scale floating wind farms, based on requirements for projects in the hundreds of megawatts to gigawatt capacity, deploying larger next - generation turbines and a range of technology innovations.

Yet demonstrating large - scale technologies — such as advanced modular nuclear reactors, floating deepwater wind turbines, or carbon capture and storage technologies — typically costs more than venture capitalists can finance alone, leaving a large «Valley of Death» that kills off many promising technologies before they can enter the marketplace.

The turbine generator has high temperature exhaust, excellent for running steam boiler or water heat, this is attractive for large buildings that need lots of hot water such as hotels or hospitals.

In the 1970s and»80s, the U.S. government funded the development of large - scale wind turbines, as did other countries such as Denmark, Germany, Spain, India, and, later, China.

By 2020, approximately 65 percent of the U.S. fleet, comprising 30,000 turbines, will have been in operation for more than 10 years.1 Similar situations exist in other countries that have large turbine populations, such as Germany, where nearly a third of the wind turbines have been in service for more than 15 years.2

Creating jobs: Wind turbine manufacturing companies have recently opened facilities in Iowa (Clipper Windpower), Minnesota (Suzlon), and Pennsylvania (Gamesa), and wind turbine orders are creating jobs all the way down the supply chain, sometimes in areas that do not have a large wind resource, such as Louisiana.

Winters have been so severe it's actually created lethal situations as there have been many cases in Britain where ice formed so heavily on the turbine blades large lethal chunks have been flung to such great distances it has been too life threatening to leave the house.

Many factors impact a wind turbine's supply chain, such as the worldwide demand for steel and other commodities, availability of equipment large enough to manufacture and transport the large components, and fluctuating foreign exchange rates.

According to AWEA's 2009 Annual Wind Energy Market Report, the largest category of new U.S. manufacturing facilities supporting the wind industry was for turbine subcomponents such as bearings, electrical components, and hydraulic systems.

If capturing and storing carbon dioxide doesn't work at a large scale, many energy experts say, then all the effort to curb carbon emissions through technologies such as wind turbines and solar panels may amount to so much hot air.

Electric power systems with a large share of intermittent resources may rely more on flexible resources such as gas turbines or hydropower to «firm up» the output of intermittent generators.

When we talk about small wind turbines we're also talking about microgeneration — the small - scale generation of electric power by individuals — as opposed to the larger, grid - tied power production of commercial wind turbines, such as those found on wind farms.

*** Wind turbines killing more than just local birds, study finds Purdue University Brian Wallheimer 28 September 2016 EST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Wind turbines are known to kill large birds, such as golden eagles, that live nearby.

Many experts attribute this large number of fatalities to unique aspects of wind power development in northern California, such as the unusually large number of turbines (over 5,000), the type of turbines in the region, and the presence of abundant raptor prey in the area.

Based on wind - speed measurements, researchers at MIT, led by Stephen Connors, director of the Analysis Group for Regional Electricity Alternatives, calculated that large turbines located far offshore could ultimately cost less per power generated than either land - based turbines or near - offshore ones, even factoring in extra costs, such as much longer underground electricity transmission cables.

There are also clear warning signs that there are major problems emerging with the use of the larger wind turbines such as the VESTAS V90's, which have been used at Waterloo wind development in South Australia, now owned by TRU energy.

Some large commercial - scale tidal - current turbine projects are now being installed, such as Open Hydro's device in an 8MW project in Brittany, and MCT's 1.2 MW Seagen has been feeding power to the Northern Ireland grid for several years.