Sentences with phrase «to turn a turbine»

The heated liquid is used to generate steam, which turns a turbine, generating electricity.

They function by heating water to create steam, which then turns turbines, generating electricity.

The only difference is the wind turns a turbine instead of water.

Hot steam can then be made to turn turbines without losing too much of the original absorbed solar energy.

Instead of wind, tidal flows turn the turbine, converting the kinetic energy of moving seawater into electrical energy.

Those generating enough power are even turning their turbines into money makers, by selling energy back into the grid.

The steam then turns a turbine and generates electricity.

When electricity is needed, the hot salt is used to boil water and produce high - temperature, high - pressure steam, which turns turbines that generate electricity.

See key works by Charmatz and his collaborators, get involved in a debate about what a dance museum could be and join in as contemporary dancers turn the Turbine Hall into a dance floor for everyone.

This current funnels air upward into a controlled twister whose low - pressure center draws more air into the tower, turning turbines at its base.

Tapping geothermal energy means facing the harsh realities of thermodynamics: Typically, geothermal electricity is generated when hot water or steam underground is piped to the surface to drive a turbine, usually through heating an intermediate working fluid that actually turns the turbine's blades.

Operational Changes Turning turbines off from summer to late fall during low - wind conditions — when bats are most active — is the single most promising option to protect them, according to Ed Arnett, a pioneer of bat and wind energy research efforts.

LLNL physicist and AIT principal investigator Adam Bernstein said: «Fission in nuclear reactors generates heat, which is used to pressurise or boil water to turn turbines for electricity generation.

Pedaling turns a turbine generator that creates electricity, stored in a battery.

This is how it works: Water Pumped to Shore to Turn Turbine As Aquamarine Power describes it,

In other areas of the state, super-hot water is «flashed» into steam within the power plant, and that steam turns the turbine.

Boiling - water reactors, such as those at Fukushima Daiichi or Oyster Creek, directly produce the steam that then turns the turbine to make electricity — adding a sheen of radioactivity to the power - generating equipment.

1 PHILIPPE PARRENO (TATE MODERN, LONDON; CURATED BY ANDREA LISSONI WITH VASSILIS OIKONOMOPOULOS) Parreno has turned the Turbine Hall into a mesmerizing machine producing light, sound, cinematic effects, and choreography: Inflated fish float in the air, huge planes reminiscent of Russian Constructivism ascend and descend inscrutably in the semidarkness, and a flickering apparatus seems to send out signals that trigger reactions throughout the entire museum.

The natural endowment of a stupendous water fall was harnessed to generate electricity via falling water turning turbines.

It's actually pretty simple: The energy in wind turns the turbine's blades around a rotor that is connected to the main shaft, which itself spins a generator to create electricity.

The fuel that turns the turbine blades is free; this means that once a wind farm is built, the price of electricity it produces is set and remains at that level for the entire life of the wind farm.

When trash is dropped into a chamber and heated to 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, its organic components — food, fluids, paper — vaporize into a hot, pressurized gas, which turns a turbine to generate electricity.

The $ 1.5 billion power plant is expected to produce 275 megawatts of electricity by turning coal into gas, thereby removing impurities including CO2, and burning the resulting pure gas to turn turbines to produce power.

Some small dams are built to store water in reservoirs and then release water downstream, while others divert water away from rivers into powerhouses; in all cases water is used to turn turbines and create electricity.

Fill the cavern with high - pressure gas and then at night release it again to get a high - pressure gas that turns the turbine that creates energy — electricity.

The steam produced is used to turn turbines and produce up to 5 megawatts of electricity.

When there's more heat than is needed to turn the turbines, some of the hot salt solution is stored in a tank.

And at 11:08 A.M. local time Wednesday, this concentrated light heated steam in those towers to turn a turbine — the first «power towers» in the U.S. to convert the sun's heat into electricity for commercial use.

They generate energy from heat just below the surface; water pumped down there is used to warm fluids with low boiling points, releasing vapor that turns a turbine to make electricity.

As of July, on average, not even half of its installed hydropower capacity found water to turn turbines, the company's statistics show.

The steam generators that transfer the heat from the solution of water and boron, which comes into contact with the nuclear reactor, to the water heated into steam that turns the turbines to produce electricity also employ the alloy.

But sodium also reacts explosively with either air or water, necessitating elaborate safety controls in places where it must get close to water in order to create steam to turn a turbine to make electricity, such as steam generators.

When there's a demand for electricity, the water is released to flow down the hill, turning turbines to run a generator.

EcoWordly is reporting that the algae will be cultivated in laboratories and «will be further treated to produce a fuel to turn turbines.»

The resulting steam is used to turn a turbine.

Coal - fired power plants are simple: They burn coal to boil water, using the steam to turn a turbine.

It was decided that Olkiluoto Island in western Finland would host the new plant, where the Gulf of Bothnia could cool the steam used to turn the turbines and generate electricity.

Hydro energy is generated from a moving water source that turns the turbines to produce energy.

The heat is used to boil water in the boiler, and the energy in the steam is used to turn turbines and generators.

The current of water turns the turbine, and this motion is converted to usable electricity.

Converting light into electricity with no moving parts is a profoundly different enterprise than turning a turbine to make power — the technology that is at work in coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydropower plants and, most visibly to the public, at wind farms.