Sentences with phrase «turbine blades near»

Wings also operate under drier conditions when they're at altitude; turbine blades near the surface are in the middle of winter sleet and snow.

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Last year Ohio legislators passed a law requiring wind turbine blades to be at least a quarter - mile from the nearest property line.

Residents living near a wind farm have reported sheltering in their homes when lumps of ice were thrown from blades from a 410 - ft high turbine near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.

This Senate Bill 238 changes the distance requirement to «at least 1,225 in horizontal distance from the tip of the turbine's nearest blade at ninety degrees to the exterior of the nearest, habitable, residential structure, if any, located on adjacent property at the time of the certification application.»

Only as the truck neared the base of a 95 - meter - tall wind turbine did the silvery - white blades become visible among the trees.

I have often worked near these turbines on our research projects in the winter and witnessed the large divots in the snow where ice has been flung from the turning blades.

They tested a revised operating procedure slowing turbine blades to near motionless in low - wind periods significantly reduces bat mortality.

The research, recently published in the Journal of Wildlife Management, demonstrates that slowing turbine blades to near motionless in low - wind periods significantly reduces bat mortality.»

The height at the bottoms of the blades is 111 feet and the trees in nearest nesting area are no higher than 80 feet so the birds fly under the turbine blades.

Protesting one proposed wind farm in 1999 near the habitat of the rare California condor, local environmentalists decried the turbine blades as «condor Cuisinarts.»