Sentences with phrase «uses new turbine»

The E400 uses new turbine - style air vents.

Not exact matches

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

«New study uses blizzard to measure wind turbine airflow.»

But so is the cost of any method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions enough to make a similar difference — whether it's doubling the fuel efficiency of every single car and truck on the road (which would cost a few trillion dollars and take at least 15 years) or building scores of new wind turbines for each turbine already turning today or erecting hundreds of new solar cell arrays for every array in use today.

By 2010, Verdant's hope is to increase its turbine farm in New York City to 30 devices producing more than a megawatt of energy (800 households use about one megawatt).

New computer modeling suggests that high temperature TPV conversion — which captures infrared radiation from very hot surfaces — could one day rival combined - cycle turbine systems when combined with thermal storage using liquid metal at temperatures around 1,300 degrees Celsius.

Hu will use the tunnel as part of a $ 663,000 grant from NASA to study icing of aircraft wings, part of a $ 360,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study icing of wind turbine blades and part of a $ 20,000 seed grant from Iowa State's Institute for Physical Research and Technology to develop new technology to study aircraft icing.

He notes the new technique could someday be used on jet turbine blades, for example, to more accurately assess their integrity and durability.

The new alloy — a potential replacement for high - performance permanent magnets found in automobile engines and wind turbines — eliminates the use of one of the scarcest and costliest rare earth elements, dysprosium, and instead uses cerium, the most abundant rare earth.

The idea is that the new layer will be used in both aircraft engines and gas turbines within two years.

The measurements that this tool enables can be used to develop new materials for turbine engines, car parts and industrial machinery, to name just a few applications.

While previous engines used a so - called single sequential turbocharger, which utilized two turbines on a single shaft, the new turbocharger — a Garrett GT37 — is a conventional, single - compressor turbo.

This is an all new engine, and also uses BMW's TwinPower Turbo technology, or basically variable turbine geometry which allows the engine to put out slightly higher power (about 7 - 8 bhp more), but still reduces consumption (and emissions) by 17 % according to manufacturer data.

S3 three - door and Sportback Black Edition models combine the new colour - coding with 18 - inch five - arm Turbine design wheels, while S3 Saloon Black Edition models upgrade to a 19 - inch five - arm Wing design corresponding in size with the 19 - inch wheel used by «standard» S3 Saloon models.

(If you could sell wind we'd be rich, people used to say in the days before the foothills got sown with rows of gigantic new turbines, without bringing a marked improvement to anybody's fortunes.»

We've covered a few previous thermoelectric devices meant for personal use, but there's a new entry in the market from a company that also sells «a tiny hydropower turbine in a can.»

A story in the Minneapolis Star Tribune today highlights the increasingly common use of 100 meter wind turbines for new wind power projects, up from the previous 80 meter standard.

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.

The project, which will take up to three years to complete, will increase its capacity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 10 percent, by eliminating all use of fuel oil (except for emergencies) and installing newer, more efficient turbines.

GWP could buy solar panels from other companies in the US and complete the manufacturing doing only the back - end of the panels at Grayson, use only the new technology gas turbine built in 2003 and invest in storage.

Tidal - power partisans praise its reliability and easiness on the eyeâ $» in contrast with the giant wind turbines near some New England tourist havensâ $» and note that over half of Americaâ $ ™ s electricity is used in states that border on the ocean.

The oil - fired (liquid - fired) generators are only used minimally today, due to a combination of high relative fuel prices, air pollution restrictions, and the low efficiencies of the older steam turbines and newer internal combustion units.

The newly privatised companies invested in the new combined cycle generating technologies, which used gas turbines and were gas fired.

In 1990 he was living the life of a new age traveller in a converted military vehicle using a small wind powered turbine to power lights etc..

In practice, according to Beth Ambrose, senior consultant at Jones Lang LaSalle, the property specialist, that means the use of a variety of new and old technologies, from solar panels and wind turbines to recycling facilities and incinerators to produce energy from rubbish.

The new science on wind turbine noise, confirms that the setback of 550 metres is not sufficient to protect health and that the 40 dBA standard used by Ontario to assess noise emissions from wind turbines is not adequate.

Both Dominion Virginia Power and Fishermen's Energy will use this type of foundation at their sites off the coasts of Virginia Beach and Atlantic City, New Jersey, respectively which will enable the companies to analyze and assess how the structural design performs at two separate locations with different turbine technology and site conditions.

Research is also investigating new ways to minimize impacts, such as identifying the wind speeds at which turbines can generate power with minimal impact on bats, the use of devices to deter bats from coming close to a turbine, and whether certain turbine colours are more effective in keeping bats away.

Using the power of the Industrial Internet and turbine - to - turbine communications capabilities, GE's new software allows the turbines within a wind farm to act as a cohesive unit, rather than individual assets.

By then, electricity from solar will be much more competitive against electricity from conventional sources, and biofuel will be a non-negligible fraction of the fuel used by the international airline industry (maybe), Iowa and Texas will have perhaps 3 times as many wind turbines as now — who knows, maybe there will be new watershed control projects completed or under construction in Thailand, the Mekong River, Queensland and upper.

A new opportunity, a source of local employment, increased income for the farmers who are hosting the wind turbines, a source of finance for community development and a local asset that can show the world that the people in this area are proud to be a part of the necessary change to renewable energy and away from the damaging use of fossil fuels.

Altamont Winds LLC, applied (March 2014) for a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) to allow the Summit Wind Repower Project, to replace 569 wind turbines in the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area (APWRA), with up to 33 new turbines with a production capacity of 54 megawatts (MW).

According to projections by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the average rate for new combined cycle natural gas - fired plants (which use both a gas and a steam turbine) going online in 2018 will be around $ 48 per megawatt hour (MWh).

Smaller scale turbines used to power a home or business are available and new models for rooftop installations are also in production, including vertical - axis turbines that have a smaller, lower profile than horizontal axis turbines.

Indeed, I have been informed that while CASA advised the use of lights of 2000 candela on tall wind turbines in Australia, the New Zealand authority holds that lights of 20 candela are acceptable at Tararua III Wind Farm, even near an airfield (Terry Teoh, Pacific Hydro, pers.

This new release cemented RSD's position in the future of the wind industry as a leading technology because, for the first time, an IEC - compliant power - performance measurement of a wind turbine can be performed using RSDs.

In Denmark and New Zealand lights on wind turbines are one hundredth the brightness of many of those used on Australian turbines.

This new nuclear technology, because it operates at higher temperatures, can increase thermal efficiency from the 34 % or so of current nuclear technology to closer to 50 %; it can have more inherent safety features from not being pressurized and have a core that can not melt down; it can use more efficient combined cycle turbine technologies that require less capital for the same amount of power generated.

Better to put in new combustion turbines and use their waste heat to drive the old coal boilers.

(I recently visited a website on Th power (a link from Brave New Climate) suggesting Nd byproduct of nuclear power could be used for wind turbines.

We estimate that ∼ 3,800,000 5 MW wind turbines, ∼ 49,000 300 MW concentrated solar plants, ∼ 40,000 300 MW solar PV power plants, ∼ 1.7 billion 3 kW rooftop PV systems, ∼ 5350 100 MW geothermal power plants, ∼ 270 new 1300 MW hydroelectric power plants, ∼ 720,000 0.75 MW wave devices, and ∼ 490,000 1 MW tidal turbines can power a 2030 WWS world that uses electricity and electrolytic hydrogen for all purposes.

Using Fischer - Tropsch (FT) synthetic fuel or blend can significantly reduce gaseous particulate matter and gaseous emissions compared to standard military jet (JP - 8) fuel when used in a T63 gas - turbine helicopter engine, according to a new study by a team from the Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University and... Read more →

A new technology developed by University of Nebraska - Lincoln electrical engineering doctoral student Jie Cheng solves both of those problems by harnessing the excess wind energy usually wasted as spillage and storing it for use when wind speeds dip, making wind turbines more efficient and consistent.

The spar foundations, built at Navantia's yard in Fene, Spain, are shorter and slimmer — and less expensive — than the original hull, designed and fabricated by French contractor Technip at its Pori yard in Finland; and the turbine on the new model is almost three times as powerful as the 2.3 MW machine, delivered by Siemens, that was used on the flagship unit.

Then a new round of testing will be carried out in the southwestern tip of the Sea of Japan using a 60m platform with a pair of 200 kW wind lens units, and thereafter the aim is to build an offshore wind farm with giant 5000 kW «Wind Lens» turbines, located at ocean depths exceeding 100m.

Designed for home use by Urban Green Energy of New York, the turbines can be installed on a roof, are made of a combination of galvanized steel and carbon filters, can be painted to match the roof's color, and come in sizes from 5» 2» to 14» 4».

Is it right to force an industrial use, think industrial wind turbine of 400 feet to the new «models: 600 + feet, in a rural residential community or a suburban residential community or an urban community for that matter.