Sentences with phrase «up about wind turbines»

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«The genius about the artificial island is that you could set up a lot of wind turbines, offshore, out of sight, but still use near shore technologies which are cheaper,» Energinet's Hanne Storm Edlefsen told CNBC's Sustainable Energy.

A new wind turbine is up and running in Irving - about 30 miles south of Buffalo.

Sam's focus is microelectric mechanical systems, and his name wound up on a paper called «Generating Electric Power With a MEMS Electroquasistatic Induction Turbine Generator» («a gas generator about an inch square and a quarter - inch thick,» he says).

Ontario, Canada About Blog This wind turbine blog was made specifically to keep you up to date on the current news in the small wind turbine industry, and to help dispel myths... Orenda Energy Solutions engineers and manufactures fully integrated wind turbine solutions for the rural segment of the small distributed wind industry.

It's hard to worry about whether or not Spidey will wind up in a jet turbine when you've seen ten ads and a trailer ending on that scene, after all.

Construction of the Texas wind farm will begin at the end of 2014, with about 10 turbines going up each week.

Below we outline detailed information about generators, with many power options right up to 7 MW, as well as one of the most important components of wind turbines and motors that is used in place of generators in individually made wind turbines.

Trident Winds plans to build a floating array of about 100 wind turbines, each with a hub height of 400 feet — which works out to up to 600 feet in height when one of the turning blades is at the 12 o'clock position — some 33 nautical miles off Morro Bay.

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Summing up the lack of forward planning about wind turbines physicists and environmental activist, John Droz, jr, warns, «just because a power source is an alternative, or a renewable, does NOT automatically mean that it is better than any conventional or fossil fuel source.»

Never mind that wind turbines routinely chop up hundreds of thousands of birds every year, it now it appears they may be about to start chopping up people, too!

That problem — * exasperated sigh * — is this: if the RSPB is really concerned about the potential disturbance to wildlife of a few noisy lorries and drill rigs (which, let's not forget, are only up for a short period, after which they are replaced by a silent extraction device called a Christmas tree), how come it's so cheerfully complacent about the epic numbers of rare birds and protected bats which are sliced and diced (or, in the case of bats, barotraumatised — i.e. made to implode) by the industrial wind turbines which the RSPB not only champions but from which it benefits financially.

**** The wind industry has known about, attempted to cover up and lied about the adverse health effects caused by incessant turbine generated low - frequency noise and infrasound for over 30 years; and knowing full - well that the dB (A) weighting is irrelevant to measuring the low - frequency noise spectrum, wrote their own «rules» that even make the risible -LSB-...]

I don't know about other countries, but whoever runs a wind turbine in Germany has to build up reserves (mandated by law) for the decommissioning.

The blade tips of a wind turbine can spin at speeds of up to 80 meters per second, or about 180 miles per hour.

That evidence completely contradicts the wind industry lie that turbine hosts never, ever complain; a piece of propaganda cooked up by its media manipulators — including a former tobacco advertising guru — who run the story that it's only «jealous» wind farm neighbours who complain about wind turbine noise, «jealous» because they're not getting paid.

In Australia wind turbines have clocked up about 6000 turbine - years of operation.

In fact the typical utility - scale wind turbine seen in Australia today has the capacity to generate up to about two megawatts, and on average will generate about 35 % of that (see capacity factor, on another page).

In 2009, it put up about a third of the world's new wind turbines.

People, for varying reasons, decided that they hated these wind turbines popping up in their town (most likely because their neighbors got paid to put them on their property, but they didn't), and got worked up about it.

We've already heard about, and debunked, the idea that wind turbines are a massive threat to bird life, and our reporting of the New York Times trashing of turbines kicked up a lively debate.

We have about 9GW nameplate capacity of wind turbines sticking out of the ground here in Texas and solar is cropping up like mad.

The authors have also set up a web site to collect information about noise from people living near large wind turbines: www.windturbinenoisehealthhumanrights.com.

Ontario, Canada About Blog This wind turbine blog was made specifically to keep you up to date on the current news in the small wind turbine industry, and to help dispel myths... Orenda Energy Solutions engineers and manufactures fully integrated wind turbine solutions for the rural segment of the small distributed wind industry.

Ontario, Canada About Blog This wind turbine blog was made specifically to keep you up to date on the current news in the small wind turbine industry, and to help dispel myths... Orenda Energy Solutions engineers and manufactures fully integrated wind turbine solutions for the rural segment of the small distributed wind industry.

We have to pause here and take stock and take the time to think this through as a society... or we could end up with thousands of giant industrial wind turbines over great swaths of prime agricultural land and beautiful countryside and we don't know enough about what this could mean in terms of human health, agricultural land health, animal health, water table health, wildlife health, property value health, property tax health and so on.