Sentences with phrase «turbines blade length»

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In order to have that much energy capacity in a single turbine, it will have to have blades more than 650 feet long, which is longer than the length of two football fields and also two and a half times longer than any existing turbine blade (pictured above is a cross section of a smaller version of the blade the team is working on).

Though small by today's standards — the wind turbine's blades were less than one third the length of those installed offshore by Deepwater Wind — the 200 kilowatt - capacity turbine produced as much as 11 percent of the island's energy needs during off - peak winter months.

Turbine blades routinely exceed 60 meters in length and nearly all are manufactured from thermoset plastics that can not be recycled once their useful life has expired.

Despite the potential collective loss of millions of dollars in electric generation, the U.S. wind energy industry has voluntarily committed to changing how turbines are operated during the bats» fall migration season, slowing blade rotations to fewer than 1 - 3 revolutions a minute, depending on blade length, thereby reducing the risk of collision.

Some 33 stories high with rotor blades extending 50 meters in length, the Brilliant 1.6 - 100 and 1.7 - 100 wind turbines embody the most advanced and efficient turbines GE has developed to date.

Class 3 wind facilities with a hub height of 70 metres or more (excluding blade length) that were granted an REA prior to January 1, 2016, will not be subject to the 550 setback requirements unless changes are made to those turbines that increase their sound power level.

Each blade on these turbines is over 200 feet long, about the length of the wingspan of a 747 aircraft.

Senate Bill 328, if approved, would determine setback requirements based on the height of the turbine and the length of the turbine's blades.

LM Wind Power builds rotor blades for the industry's bread - and - butter 1.5 - and 2 - megawatt wind turbines, as well as 8 - megawatt behemoths with rotors spanning 180 meters, or roughly the length of two football fields.