Sentences with phrase «than the wind farms»

There's a lot more to green technology than wind farms.
Wave farms don't interfere with aviation or radar, like wind towers, and they require far less space than wind farms.
Climate change is a far greater danger to our environment than the wind farms that will slow climate change.
So it could well be that the high electricity prices attract wind farms, rather than the wind farms causing the high prices.
I have seen many commenters remark that bird strikes are not an issue, that cats kill many times more birds than wind farms and so on.
Put another way: One dollar spent subsidizing Fitzpatrick could thus leverage almost three times as much clean electricity as a dollar spent on renewables subsidies — and deliver far more reliable power than wind farms and solar plants do.
100 times more birds and bats are killed by house cats than wind farms.
Ironically, adverse impact on agriculture from a wind farm development has been used by at least one wind farm opposition group as justification for its activities, but climate change will have an incomparably greater adverse impact on agriculture than any wind farm.
The threat of global warming could be a far greater threat to the population of birds than wind farms».
Greenhouse / climate change and ocean acidification will cause incomparably more environmental damage than wind farms do, and fire hazards, health problems and bird mortality will all be greater without wind farms.
The main reason that coal - fired power stations have stayed in service for so long is that the power consumption in Australia, until recently, increased faster than wind farms were being built.
At the Clare hearing of the Parliamentary Committee on Wind Farms, a wind farm opponent, John Faint, was asked «Are there likely to be factors other than the wind farm that have led to the decline of the local population?»

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It invested in developing wind farms, only to pull back from the sector after deciding wind was a waste because the average wind farm delivered lower margins than the average deepwater oil well.
Breaking down the annual figures from trade body WindEurope, onshore capacity increased by 12.5 GW and offshore grew by 3.1 GW, while new wind farm installations were 20 percent higher than in 2016.
But when so many turn down leasing one and one - half acre for one Wind Turbine for each 80 acres, that lease certainly does not materially affect the rest of the Farm or Ranch grazing pasture and the lease pays much more than the farm crow or grazing pasture lease, just because some lawyer said the lease was too long: 30 years plus 30 year option = 60 years, and the wind turbine company has selling production / electricity contracts for the next 150 years — which is needed to obtain financWind Turbine for each 80 acres, that lease certainly does not materially affect the rest of the Farm or Ranch grazing pasture and the lease pays much more than the farm crow or grazing pasture lease, just because some lawyer said the lease was too long: 30 years plus 30 year option = 60 years, and the wind turbine company has selling production / electricity contracts for the next 150 years — which is needed to obtain financFarm or Ranch grazing pasture and the lease pays much more than the farm crow or grazing pasture lease, just because some lawyer said the lease was too long: 30 years plus 30 year option = 60 years, and the wind turbine company has selling production / electricity contracts for the next 150 years — which is needed to obtain financfarm crow or grazing pasture lease, just because some lawyer said the lease was too long: 30 years plus 30 year option = 60 years, and the wind turbine company has selling production / electricity contracts for the next 150 years — which is needed to obtain financwind turbine company has selling production / electricity contracts for the next 150 years — which is needed to obtain financing!
In the middle third of the U.S., wind farms have an all - in cost that is less than a third that of a new natural gas - fired plant, and wind power is also well below the cost of power from large - scale solar farms
The company has already build more than 800 MW of wind projects in the state, and expects to have another 200 MW wind farm online by the end of the year.
A New York utility, the Long Island Power Authority, plans to construct a wind farm off eastern Long Island that would be the nation's largest offshore wind energy project, three times larger than one due to go online this year off Rhode Island.
Biello: And they do have some more aggressive policies than even the U.S. at present as far as renewable energy goes, whether those who actually realized they have had a lot of problems with kind of wind farms that didn't perform up to expectations, but they do have fairly aggressive targets for how much energy it needs to come from renewable resources like the wind and the sun, they have become the manufacturer, as in all things, for Photovoltaics and the wind turbine blades that are basically powering the green revolution in the West.
The early mapping in turn should allow Interior to undergo a less time - consuming environmental «assessment» of a wind farm, rather than a longer «environmental impact statement,» said Jim Lanard, president of the Offshore Wind Development Coalitwind farm, rather than a longer «environmental impact statement,» said Jim Lanard, president of the Offshore Wind Development CoalitWind Development Coalition.
But there are times when solar and wind farms generate more electricity than is needed by consumers.
«That's the case for photovoltaics, but for wind farms, the energetic cost of curtailment is much lower than it is for batteries.
The potential is huge: 4,500 gigawatts (4,500 billion watts) of electricity per year for every 1.08 billion square feet (100 million square meters) of the steel coated in the dye, Worsley estimates, or more than 260 times the installed capacity of all U.S. wind farms.
Imagine a wind farm smaller than a microchip.
The agency is working with developer Apex Clean Energy to meet 100 percent of Fort Hood's electricity needs with onsite solar PV panels that are complemented by additional energy wired in from a wind farm in Floyd County, more than 300 miles northwest of the facility.
Long - term data from a wind farm at San Gorgonio, California, confirmed his earlier model predictions: surface temperatures behind the wind turbines were higher than in front during the night, but as much as 4 °C lower by day.
From computer models, he found that counter-rotating vertical turbines could be arranged in such a way that a vertical wind farm has a higher power output per unit of area than a horizontal farm, upward of 10 times the energy density.
A nomadic horseman herds cattle among shadows cast by the nation's first wind farm, while a few hundred metres away, a train with more than 60 carriages ships coal from an enormous mine.
At the end of 2009, the capacity of Texas wind turbines, reaching to the horizons of farm and prairie land, totaled 9,410 megawatts, well more than the combined total of the next three largest wind - power states, Iowa, California and Washington.
Whereas solar or wind farms have few negative environmental side effects, they require more space and produce less energy than environmentally unfriendly coal plants.
As part of its strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to prevent global warming from exceeding 2 °C (3.6 °F), the Obama administration unveiled a plan in September to build wind farms off of nearly every U.S. coastline by 2050 — enough turbines to generate zero - carbon electricity for more than 23 million homes.
In 2012 turbines killed more bats than birds, and the numbers of the dead were substantial: about 888,000 bats were found on wind farms, compared with 573,000 birds.
Offshore wind farms proposed for the U.S. range from 4 to more than 20 miles off the nearest coastline, placing many of them out of view of the shore.
More than 2,300 wind turbines twirl off the coasts of 11 European countries today, and the United Kingdom has just approved the world's largest offshore wind farm.
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The journey to Whangamomona and back along the narrow winding Forgotten World Highway is more about the drive than about the destination, crossing green pastures and forests, small villages and farms.
Because I ride a bicycle and limit my car trips, and I've curtailed my airplane travel, and wear sweaters (I know when I've set the thermostat too low when I can see the dog's breath in the living room), and because I've opted into our electric utility's «Pure Power» wind power program (they pledge to buy 75 % of your power from wind farms in exchange for raising your rate a few cents per kilowatt hour), my personal «Carbon Footprint» comes out at less than 4 tons per year.
We have to look the problem in the eye and make educated decisions as to which is less destructive, rather than put forward pablum like «coal is evil, and wind farms don't do any damage».
There was no Sears Building, one building that uses more energy than entire cities, how will «wind farms» meet that demand?
Notwithstanding the fact this is Canadian Shield, there is no agriculture or industry other than pandering to rich City folk, and a wind farm
In 2008, a total of 102 wind farms came online, providing more than 8,400 megawatts of generating capacity.
The capacity factor of wind farms in Australia averages around 35 % higher than many conventional power stations.
Simon Holmes à Court, Chairman of Hepburn Wind, has said that «this is the first time a wind farm in Australia will be paying more to the community than it does in lease payments&raqWind, has said that «this is the first time a wind farm in Australia will be paying more to the community than it does in lease payments&raqwind farm in Australia will be paying more to the community than it does in lease payments».
The wind farm is supported by a flywheel energy storage system supplied by Powercorp and supplies more than half of Coral Bay's electricity requirements.
Ocean City, Md. — November 22, 2016 — America's leading offshore wind company Deepwater Wind today announced plans for the Skipjack Wind Farm, a new offshore wind farm that will help Maryland meet its clean - energy goals at far lower prices than state law anticipates, saving Maryland ratepayers millions of dollwind company Deepwater Wind today announced plans for the Skipjack Wind Farm, a new offshore wind farm that will help Maryland meet its clean - energy goals at far lower prices than state law anticipates, saving Maryland ratepayers millions of dollWind today announced plans for the Skipjack Wind Farm, a new offshore wind farm that will help Maryland meet its clean - energy goals at far lower prices than state law anticipates, saving Maryland ratepayers millions of dollWind Farm, a new offshore wind farm that will help Maryland meet its clean - energy goals at far lower prices than state law anticipates, saving Maryland ratepayers millions of dollFarm, a new offshore wind farm that will help Maryland meet its clean - energy goals at far lower prices than state law anticipates, saving Maryland ratepayers millions of dollwind farm that will help Maryland meet its clean - energy goals at far lower prices than state law anticipates, saving Maryland ratepayers millions of dollfarm that will help Maryland meet its clean - energy goals at far lower prices than state law anticipates, saving Maryland ratepayers millions of dollars.
The Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce recently reported that wind farms should provide more than $ 1 billion in local property tax revenue, proving that the financial benefits of wind can be found in every nook and cranny.
The innovative floating approach will allow wind farms to be developed in much deeper waters than conventional offshore wind farms, which are usually placed in water depths of up to 50 meters.
Until a wind farm gets at least to the point where an application for approval has been submitted to the relevant authority it may be little more than wishful thinking and is not worth covering in more detail than that below.
Holger Gassner, head of markets and political affairs at RWE Innogy GmbH, estimates that in 2050, a 10 - day span when wind farms generate less than 10 % of capacity would require 313 times the current pumped storage capacity to bridge the «calm.»
The wind - farm, even if it functions at its «maximum efficiency», would produce far less than 1 % of the electricity needed in Toronto.
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