Sentences with phrase «turbine tower in»

The bill also increases from 10 percent to 15 percent the amount of power that utilities must get from renewable sources, which could mean hundreds of additional industrial wind turbine towers in rural communities.

Not exact matches

The greatest coup came early last year, when Ontario announced it had negotiated an agreement with a consortium of Korean companies, including Samsung and Korea Power Electric Corp. (Details remain mysterious, but included construction of CS Wind's turbine tower plant in Windsor, a blade manufacturing facility in Tillsonburg, and two other facilities.)

Last week, for instance, President Obama headed to Newton, Iowa, to highlight a company making towers for wind turbines in a factory originally built for Maytag.

Blade by blade, section by section of tower housings and foundations, the pieces that will make up 36 giant wind turbines in Chautauqua County are lumbering down county and state highways, a U.S. highway and an interstate, from Hamburg to Arkwright.

The prominence of that LG tower pales in comparison to 400 - foot wind turbines that get built with impunity on less famous scenery.

The state also wants Indian Point to install cooling towers that would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to mitigate harm to wildlife when the plant sucks in billions of gallons of Hudson River water to cool its turbines.

The company expects to have a prototype of the new crane within a year, in time for the launch of its V112 three - megawatt turbine, which will have heavier components and require a crane with a stronger arm than the current Tower Crane has.

ITI Energy's system, designed by Oreada, Ltd., also based in Scotland, is made up of two friction clamps, connected by a hydraulic structure that allows caterpillar - like motion up and down the turbine tower (pdf).

The Vestas Tower Crane, still in the prototype phase, is designed to attach to a cable lowered down from a small crane located inside the turbine tower's nacelle (the cover housing the wind turbine's generator and gearbox) and hoisted upTower Crane, still in the prototype phase, is designed to attach to a cable lowered down from a small crane located inside the turbine tower's nacelle (the cover housing the wind turbine's generator and gearbox) and hoisted uptower's nacelle (the cover housing the wind turbine's generator and gearbox) and hoisted upward.

And so, Sritharan and Schmitz watched as Doug Wood, engineering specialist and manager of Iowa State's Structural Engineering Research Laboratory, typed in the commands for the lab's hydraulic equipment to push or pull with bigger loads on a full - size test segment of a 100 - meter concrete wind turbine tower.

Could purple wind turbines decrease the carnage wreaked in the night by looming towers with spinning blades on Halloween's iconic flying mammals?

In the «power tower», potassium and sodium nitrate salts are heated to 565 °C and then pass through a heat exchanger where they turn water into steam to drive turbines in the 19.9 megawatt planIn the «power tower», potassium and sodium nitrate salts are heated to 565 °C and then pass through a heat exchanger where they turn water into steam to drive turbines in the 19.9 megawatt planin the 19.9 megawatt plant.

A VAWT is a wind turbine design where the generator is vertically oriented in the tower, rather than sitting horizontally on top.

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.

These turbines are installed inside the tower's metal scaffolding on the second level, and are painted in the same color to minimize their visual impact on the 126 - year - old tower.

The 19 - megawatt tower will be the first in the world to use a mixture of molten salts to transfer heat from the receiver on top of the tower to a heat exchanger where steam to drive the turbines is generated.

Projects featured include House (1993) a monumental cast of a nineteenth - century terrace house in the East End of London for which she won Britain's Turner Prize, the Water Tower (1998) which graced the skyline of downtown New York, Vienna's Holocaust Memorial (2000), Monument (2001) created for the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square, and Embankment (2005 - 2006) installed in the Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall.

And in its dramatic Turbine Hall, the sense is that anything could be given house room if it deserved it — from Louise Bourgeois's towers (I Do, I Undo, I Redo, 2000; her tremendous steel spider had to wait outside) to Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project in 2003 or Rachel Whiteread's Embankment (2005)-- heaped white boxes, like sugar lumps for giants.

She haggled the price down to # 750,000 and launched the Wapping Project — an arts centre, gallery and restaurant — among the turbines, pipes and tiled walls of a place which, built in 1890, had once lifted Tower Bridge and moved the revolving stage at the London Palladium.

One of her most celebrated projects was I Do, I Undo, I Redo, an installation comprising three nine - metre - high steel towers which she was commissioned to create for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern to mark the opening of that museum in 2000.

Floating wind turbines can be placed away from the coast in deeper water as they don't need to be anchored to sea floor - mounted towers, which are typically limited to a water depth of up to 260 ft (80 m).

Taller wind - turbine towers will be crucial in expanding wind power nationwide, enabling wind energy production in all 50 states, according to studies by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, based in Golden, Colorado.

With wind farm operators and turbine technicians active at 295 wind farms across Canada, workforce development and a range of health and safety best practices in areas like electrical safety, fall arrest equipment, up - tower rescues, confined spaces and ergonomics were on the summit agenda.

Dr. Mason cites evidence that many small turbines have collapsed in close proximity to human dwellings [1; 2; 3], and recently two big Danish wind turbines lost blades and scattered sharp pieces of glass fiber up to 500 meters from the tower base in high winds [4.].

Our mission statement is «Safe Work in Wind Turbines» with our focus and value statement explaining that «through high - quality safety products and solutions for wind - turbine towers, we help our customers make wind energy more cost competitive.»

The light heats water in a boiler at the top of the tower, creating steam, which is used to run a conventional steam turbine like those in a typical fossil - fired power plant.

The practical effect of increasing the mandate will be the erection of several hundred more industrial wind turbines and towers in many rural communities.

For example, construction company SOM sculptured the 309 - metre - tall Pearl River Tower in China so it directs wind to in - built turbines that generate energy for the building.

Installation of the Block Island Wind Farm's turbine towers, blades and nacelles is scheduled to begin in early August at the project site, roughly three miles off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island.

The media helped to feed the hype machine: Many articles about small wind in the last two years have run alongside photos of roof - mounted turbines; after all, they look much cooler and more modern than tower - mounted windmills on big plots of land.

These rankings highlight that design choices such as location, tower height and turbine model play a major role in whether a project meets its objectives.

In addition, all connective fittings have also been installed, which will be used later to mount the tower with its turbine nacelle and rotor blades.

Ranging from small - scale turbine units on the sea floor to large - scale turbines on vertical towers or suspended from boats, tidal current exploitation technology is still very much in the infant stage of development.

Driving down the Interstate, I've seen lots of wind farms where a big percentage of the turbines are no longer even working, leaving junked towers in their wake.

With the average cost of a 10kW small - scale wind turbine on a 100 - foot tower in the range of $ 45,000 to $ 60,000 (before state and federal incentives), pouring through the pages of Power from the Wind make this book a wise first investment.

As a result, bird mortality from collisions is escalating every year, especially in areas where turbines and their associated power lines and towers have been poorly sited from the perspective of bird conservation.

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It is possible that, if the eagle was hit by an ascending turbine blade, it could have been thrown this far; however, research by Dr Cindy Hull in Tasmania has indicated that wedge - tailed eagles are most often hit by descending turbine blades and that they rarely, if ever, fall as far as 180m from a turbine tower (it is possible that the eagle could have been dragged by a large scavenger).

Megalim's tower in Israel will generate heat of up to 540 degrees Celsius (1,000 Fahrenheit), producing steam to drive a turbine.

The week before glasses of Aquavit were raised to celebrate start - up of Hywind Scotland, a champagne bottle smashed with naval flourish against the tower of France's first floating wind turbine, the EU - backed FloatGen, in the port of Saint - Nazaire (see panel overleaf).

A contractor said the dangers of big turbines are associated with huge underground vaults at the towers» bases (though, in fact, turbine towers are planted in solid concrete foundations).

yaw mechanism (to keep the blade assembly perpendicular to the wind; also to untwist the electrical cables in the tower when necessary)-- the nacelle (turbine housing) and blades together weigh 92 tons on a GE 1.5 - MW turbine

The first sections of the towers upon which the turbines will be supported are being assembled in nearby Providence.

If something goes wrong with a wind turbine, it's often shut down until technicians can arrive, climb the tower to assess the problem, and then make repairs — a process that can be especially difficult and time - consuming because wind farms are often located in remote areas.

In an electrical storm wind turbines will be hit by lightning just as communication towers and power transmission pylons have been struck by lightning for decades.

There are environmental costs in mining and smelting the steel from which wind turbine towers are made.

In Germany locals are blocking the power lines that are being built to accommodate new wind farms; in Britain angry country - folk are trying to block the towering turbines themselves and the solar plants overspreading nearby fields; in Massachusetts, the Cape Wind offshore wind farm was fought by Native American activists as well as a local tribal elder named Robert F. Kennedy, JrIn Germany locals are blocking the power lines that are being built to accommodate new wind farms; in Britain angry country - folk are trying to block the towering turbines themselves and the solar plants overspreading nearby fields; in Massachusetts, the Cape Wind offshore wind farm was fought by Native American activists as well as a local tribal elder named Robert F. Kennedy, Jrin Britain angry country - folk are trying to block the towering turbines themselves and the solar plants overspreading nearby fields; in Massachusetts, the Cape Wind offshore wind farm was fought by Native American activists as well as a local tribal elder named Robert F. Kennedy, Jrin Massachusetts, the Cape Wind offshore wind farm was fought by Native American activists as well as a local tribal elder named Robert F. Kennedy, Jr..

In other Michigan communities targeted for wind development, a property owner who leases land to a developer gets annual payments of around $ 9,000 to $ 14,000 for allowing a turbine tower.

Obvious solution: Build the towers so that the turbines are in the jet stream.

BSE is using an air - cooled «power tower» architecture in which vast arrays of mirrors or «heliostats» focus sunlight at a central elevated boiler, producing steam and powering a turbine.