Sentences with phrase «turn spins turbines»
La Florida is a solar thermal plant -LSB-...] that uses parabolic troughs to heat liquid in tubes, which in turn spins turbines and produces electricity.
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If your pinwheel were a wind turbine, and spinning counterclockwise turned wind energy into electrical energy, then it would most efficiently produce electricity when wind blows directly into the cups.
The devices wouldn't rely on anything spinning or turning like wind turbines, but would instead harness the energy in the vibration of wind, seismic activity and more.
When electricity is needed, the molten salt is pumped through a heat exchanger to turn water into steam that spins a turbine to generate electricity.
Under normal circumstances, wind turbine blades are left to turn slowly in the wind until they reach «cut - in speed,» the point at which they're spinning fast enough to begin generating power.
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.
«Traditional three blade turbines knock the birds out of the sky because the birds can not see the massive, spinning, blades that turn between 80mph and 190mph, therefore hitting them and knocking them to the ground, killing them.
In turn, this creates steam that spins a turbine that generates electricity.