Sentences with phrase «turbines making»

Here is a great story about a small Italian town with wind turbines making all the difference in the municipal budget.

According to temperature readings from one of the oldest wind farms in the U.S., near Palm Springs, Calif., the turbines make it warmer at night and cooler during the day, generally speaking.

The rhetoric and giant turbines make for a campaign «moment.»

The turbines make full use of stronger winds in higher altitudes: the wind turbine is mounted 80 meters above the ground with rotors spanning 90 meters.

They claim the turbines make them dizzy, irritable and unable to sleep.

There is no evidence that wind turbines make much noise (either audible or infrasound), make anyone ill, cause any substantial impact on property values, or cause neighbours any harm or significant inconvenience in any other ways.

The level of background noise at distances of a kilometre or more from wind turbines makes measuring the effect of sound from wind turbines on people at such distances complicated.

I find it interesting that while there have been many complaints from wind power opponents about how much noise wind turbines make, this is the only recording that I have come across of a sound that could be truly annoying.

In the past, over five years, I have learned it is a global phenomenon that wind turbines make some people who live nearby sick and it is a dose response so these people become more ill over time.

Thanks to modern technology, however, the noise has been greatly reduced from the original turbines made twenty years ago.

A wind turbine operator has been fined tens of thousands of pounds after one of its wind turbines made too much noise.

The dispersed wind turbines make a more pleasant visual for the neighbors.

However, at the moment, uncertainty about how factors such as low wind speeds, high levels of turbulence, noise, visual impact, and animal strikes influence the performance of micro wind turbines make it hard to determine their true potential in this form.

Plus, the turbines make money in the winter when I can't work my land.»

Wind turbines make some noise, solar panels don't.

Some of the turbines made a strange sound when rotating slowly.

If there is something coming from one or another of the main components of a wind turbine making people ill, then why isn't the same part of a car having the same effect?

This message was repeated in headlines such as ABC's environmental reporter Jake Sturmer (No reliable link between wind farms and health problems, National Health and Medical Research Council says) and Simon Chapman at the Conversation (Study finds no evidence wind turbines make you sick — again).

If turbines could possibly make anybody ill the main credible cause would seem to be the sounds that turbines make, but sounds, either audible or infrasound, have not been shown to be harmful unless they are far louder than those produced by wind turbines.

If a person sees a wind turbine (as I do) as graceful, elegant, an optimistic symbol of a cleaner and better future and finds the sounds that turbines make pleasant and restful (as I do), they are very unlikely to develop any ill - effects from being near turbines.

In the paper «Wind Turbines Make Waves: Why Some Residents Near Wind Turbines Become Ill», by Magda Havas and David Colling — the abstract starts with «People who live near wind turbines complain of symptoms...».

Most importantly, apart from the sound that turbines make, which is not loud, how could turbines make people ill; what could be the mechanism?

Not exact matches

It is made up of 91 Siemens Gamesa turbines and can generate enough electricity to power 500,000 U.K. homes per year, the Denmark - headquartered business said.

Ameren Missouri said that the new wind production was expected to be based in Missouri and neighboring states, using «American - made» turbines.

It will require a consortium of power companies, turbine manufacturers, plant designers and builders to make it competitive with existing sources of energy.

What's more, the turbines would have to be placed far offshore, where deep water would make construction very expensive.

The plant also makes wind turbines.

The facilities make large gas turbines and turbine generator sets used by power plants.

Her reputation as a conciliator was part of her appeal during the 2013 leadership contest, a skill she's used to make peace with public school teachers angry over wage - freeze legislation and appointing herself agriculture minister to mend fences with communities upset over decisions to cancel the slots - at - racetracks program and the installation of industrial wind turbines.

COPENHAGEN, Oct 12 - Danish wind turbine maker Vestas said the impending expiry of a U.S. tax credit had exacerbated a fall in orders for next year, forcing it to make more than 800 job cuts in the United States and Canada so far this year.

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.

The metals producer, more than 125 years old, makes parts for gas turbines, the engines that plane manufacturers such as Boeing and Airbus install to give planes the power to get you to your next meeting.

We also shudder to think what Donald Trump, who thinks that the slow rotating blades of wind turbines miles offshore spoil his golf courses, would make of high - pitched whirring noises in the rarefied air above them.

Over 7,000 Iowans like Bill Nosbisch are employed doing jobs like maintaining wind turbines, monitoring wind - farm systems, and making wind blades.

It makes components for four different GE operations — jet engines, locomotives, wind turbines, and water - treatment units — the first time a factory has ever done that.

Since electricity generated from solar and wind flows into the grid, Google simply has to invest in enough turbines and solar panels to cover its total energy consumption to make good on its goal.

To power Tesla's electric car empire, the company has joined hands with Vestas, a top wind turbine manufacturer, to create a storage system that would make power generated from wind useful during quiet days in the jetstreams.

Pecans.com acquired three different companies to complement its own business: Texas Collectible Tins, which makes specialty tins for packing pecans; Turbine, a wholesaler of hummingbird feeders and nut - gathering tools; and E-Z Tower, a maker of deer blind tower brackets.

It also makes it unclear who will bear the burden of decommissioning as these turbines reach end - of - life.

But according to a source, it is the prevailing winds at these location that make the two blade turbines actually quite unsuitable for conditions in the region, because they can't stand up to the wind shears here.

The Cuomo administration plan also makes clear that while offshore wind representing 2,400 megawatts and hundreds of turbines will be in the waters south of Long Island, none is expected to be visible from shore.

The turbines were made by Vestas, a global corporation headquartered in Denmark, with a wind turbine manufacturing facility in Colorado.

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.

And then there's Owen's vision of an «energy island», generating work and prosperity through the use of nuclear, windmills and marine turbines, is making real progress.

The government plans to make it easier for homeowners to install their own «green» sources of energy, previewing plans today to cut «red tape» on devices such as turbines and solar panels.

Simpson and Shue also criticized NYPA for writing its initial call for developers — called a request for proposal (RFP), which was made in early 2017 — that limited responses only to projects using natural gas turbines.

«Let's do what we can to make sure we have the energy available for people right now but invest in forward thinking: in renewable technologies, in wind turbines, in solar panels, in geothermal, to help us transition off so we have the ability to use energy and electricity in future years to come not with fossil fuels.»

Each spin of the turbine — one of a handful of units that tower over North Fork's wineries — has helped make the vineyard greener.

Even when foreign companies such as General Electric or Suzlon supply the turbines as much as 70 percent of the components are made in China, everything except for bearings and electrical controls.

And all of that production means that China is bearing the burden of the pollution that can go along with the manufacture of such renewable energy for other countries — whether the acid rain — forming sulfur dioxide emitted from making the steel in a wind turbine's blade or the noxious chemicals left over after manufacturing specialized silicon, or glass, that can turn sunshine into electricity.