Sentences with phrase «turns turbines»

Those mirrors, which spread across an area four times the size of New York's Central Park, focus sunlight onto receivers atop three 45 - story power towers, boiling a liquid that turns turbines to create electricity.

The reflected sunlight heats water in the boilers to make steam, which turns turbines to generate electricity — enough to power more than 140,000 homes.

Water allowed to flow downhill where the PE KE KE of water turns turbines generating energy Rapidly expanding with power from hydroelectric plants doubling every 15 years.

Hydro energy is generated from a moving water source that turns the turbines to produce energy.

They function by heating water to create steam, which then turns turbines, generating electricity.

When electricity is needed, the hot salt is used to boil water and produce high - temperature, high - pressure steam, which turns turbines that generate electricity.

So during the day you compress gas, and then at night, you release the gas and the gas turns the turbines and you produce electricity.

The $ 1.5 billion power plant is expected to produce 275 megawatts of electricity by turning coal into gas, thereby removing impurities including CO2, and burning the resulting pure gas to turn turbines to produce power.

Fill the cavern with high - pressure gas and then at night release it again to get a high - pressure gas that turns the turbine that creates energy — electricity.

Fischetti: Right, if you think about a long trough that reflects sunlight, it concentrates the sunlight along a pipe that runs parallel to the long trough and concentrate [s] the sunlight like a magnifying glass, [which] heats the fluid inside this pipe really hot, so the hot fluid circulates out to a somewhat traditional power plant where it's allowed to expand into high pressure gas that turns a turbine which generates electricity.

The heated liquid is used to generate steam, which turns a turbine, generating electricity.

Hot steam can then be made to turn turbines without losing too much of the original absorbed solar energy.

The steam produced is used to turn turbines and produce up to 5 megawatts of electricity.

Instead of wind, tidal flows turn the turbine, converting the kinetic energy of moving seawater into electrical energy.

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.

They generate energy from heat just below the surface; water pumped down there is used to warm fluids with low boiling points, releasing vapor that turns a turbine to make electricity.

As of July, on average, not even half of its installed hydropower capacity found water to turn turbines, the company's statistics show.

Tapping geothermal energy means facing the harsh realities of thermodynamics: Typically, geothermal electricity is generated when hot water or steam underground is piped to the surface to drive a turbine, usually through heating an intermediate working fluid that actually turns the turbine's blades.

But sodium also reacts explosively with either air or water, necessitating elaborate safety controls in places where it must get close to water in order to create steam to turn a turbine to make electricity, such as steam generators.

When there's a demand for electricity, the water is released to flow down the hill, turning turbines to run a generator.

1 PHILIPPE PARRENO (TATE MODERN, LONDON; CURATED BY ANDREA LISSONI WITH VASSILIS OIKONOMOPOULOS) Parreno has turned the Turbine Hall into a mesmerizing machine producing light, sound, cinematic effects, and choreography: Inflated fish float in the air, huge planes reminiscent of Russian Constructivism ascend and descend inscrutably in the semidarkness, and a flickering apparatus seems to send out signals that trigger reactions throughout the entire museum.

See key works by Charmatz and his collaborators, get involved in a debate about what a dance museum could be and join in as contemporary dancers turn the Turbine Hall into a dance floor for everyone.

The resulting steam is used to turn a turbine.

Coal - fired power plants are simple: They burn coal to boil water, using the steam to turn a turbine.

It was decided that Olkiluoto Island in western Finland would host the new plant, where the Gulf of Bothnia could cool the steam used to turn the turbines and generate electricity.

Another way is to harness all the the wishful thinking and unrealistic dreams of the Gaia worshippers, set fire to it and use it to turn turbines to make electricity.

The heat is used to boil water in the boiler, and the energy in the steam is used to turn turbines and generators.

The current of water turns the turbine, and this motion is converted to usable electricity.

Those generating enough power are even turning their turbines into money makers, by selling energy back into the grid.

Converting light into electricity with no moving parts is a profoundly different enterprise than turning a turbine to make power — the technology that is at work in coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydropower plants and, most visibly to the public, at wind farms.

(Now who pays for the research value is an interesting subject) As this plant utilizes steam to turn a turbine I suspect it can support the grid the same way conventional fossil fuel plants do, and photo - voltaic and wind resources do not.

The only difference is the wind turns a turbine instead of water.

«We produce high - temperature, high - pressure steam to turn a turbine,» Desmond explained.

Usually used at time of peak demand or shortage Using river flow Uses the natural flow of water of a river to turn the turbine to generate electricity.

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As the water falls with the trough, air is drawn into the column again turning the turbine.

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.

The steam then turns a turbine and generates electricity.

This is how it works: Water Pumped to Shore to Turn Turbine As Aquamarine Power describes it,

In contrast, most large solar power projects use a system called concentrating solar power, or CSP, that heats a fluid that boils water to turn a turbine.

Each time someone turns on the water to shower, wash dishes, or flush the toilet, the flow of water through the plumbing is used to turn the turbine, which then converts the motion into electrical current.

The fuel that turns the turbine blades is free; this means that once a wind farm is built, the price of electricity it produces is set and remains at that level for the entire life of the wind farm.

BrightSource's LPT 550 Technology BrightSource «s LPT 550 solar thermal technology produces electricity the same way as traditional power plants — by creating high temperature steam to turn a turbine.

Not exact matches

Inside the dam, there are turbines, which turn from the water pressure and connect to electricity generators.

Siemens manufactured Wolfe Island's 86 turbines in Germany; other developers turned to Denmark's Vestas.

In the early morning light the 148 - foot blades of many of the dozens of turbines that he passes on the way to work are already turning above him.

But when so many turn down leasing one and one - half acre for one Wind Turbine for each 80 acres, that lease certainly does not materially affect the rest of the Farm or Ranch grazing pasture and the lease pays much more than the farm crow or grazing pasture lease, just because some lawyer said the lease was too long: 30 years plus 30 year option = 60 years, and the wind turbine company has selling production / electricity contracts for the next 150 years — which is needed to obtain finTurbine for each 80 acres, that lease certainly does not materially affect the rest of the Farm or Ranch grazing pasture and the lease pays much more than the farm crow or grazing pasture lease, just because some lawyer said the lease was too long: 30 years plus 30 year option = 60 years, and the wind turbine company has selling production / electricity contracts for the next 150 years — which is needed to obtain finturbine company has selling production / electricity contracts for the next 150 years — which is needed to obtain financing!

Yes, no one should turn down wind farming's ultimate passive lease income when the lease income also includes rate increases, technology increases all along and a big one at 25 years when they change out the wind turbine, blades and head.

Alstom, a French maker of natural - gas turbines and high - speed trains, said its operating profit margins will fall in this fiscal year and next, having previously said the margins would improve, as its cash flow turns negative.

The most significant technology, in cultural terms, turns out to be not the steam turbine, or X-rays, or radio waves.