Sentences with phrase «then spins turbines»

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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.

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?

While the SL550 growls aggressively under acceleration, then sounds off with exhaust pops on gear changes and deceleration, the SL450 emits a mechanically pure whirr, like a big turbine spinning up.

Then we had the slide experience, courtesy of Carsten Holler, in 2007, when the Turbine Hall became an amusement park, and we all hurtled down those twisty silver chutes, heads spinning, disembodied, displaced.

The technology, which EnviroMission calls a Solar Tower power station, uses the sun's heat to warm a large body of air which then rises through a vertical wind tunnel causing large turbines to spin and generate electricity.

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