Sentences with phrase «when turbine blades»

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The greatest coup came early last year, when Ontario announced it had negotiated an agreement with a consortium of Korean companies, including Samsung and Korea Power Electric Corp. (Details remain mysterious, but included construction of CS Wind's turbine tower plant in Windsor, a blade manufacturing facility in Tillsonburg, and two other facilities.)

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.

Wings also operate under drier conditions when they're at altitude; turbine blades near the surface are in the middle of winter sleet and snow.

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.

When evaluating a part, such as a turbine blade inside a hot jet engine, it is important to know how each segment of the blade heats up as hot gases flow around it.

The birds are killed when flying into the path of spinning wind turbine blades.

These bendable, exascale wind turbines are built to withstand the stress with a hinge at the turbine hub that allows the blades to align themselves with the wind direction when necessary.

Calling it Tubercle Technology, the company has designed wind turbine blades that utilize the same physical streamlining properties to help them be quieter, more reliable when winds fail, are perform better in turbulent winds.

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.

Wind turbines only produce electricity when there is sufficient wind to turn the blades of the turbine.

When they fly too close, they collide with the spinning turbine blades and are killed.

When a major turbine manufacturer calls a catastrophic failure like a blade falling off component liberation, we know we are in for an adventurous ride in a theme park divorced from reality.

Residents living near a wind farm have reported sheltering in their homes when lumps of ice were thrown from blades from a 410 - ft high turbine near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.

«When properly installed, wind vortex generators energize the flow around a blade's surface and reduce aerodynamic separation, improving the turbine's performance in terms of power, loads and service life.»

We'd only just reported on the frozen and potentially lethal chunk lobbed at College Students in Gardner, Massachusetts, when yet another report of ice being slung from turbine blades appeared.

When the wind turbine operator goes out of business, who will pay for the cost of the removal of the turbine, base, structure, and blades if it is more than the salvage cost?

yaw mechanism (to keep the blade assembly perpendicular to the wind; also to untwist the electrical cables in the tower when necessary)-- the nacelle (turbine housing) and blades together weigh 92 tons on a GE 1.5 - MW turbine

The magority of bats appeard to be killed on low wind - speed night when power production was proportionally low but turbine blades were still moving, often at or close to fully operational speed.

There are turbines that have de - icing features in various turbine manufactors such as discussed in this article: https://www.windpowerengineering.com/business-news-projects/cracking-icing-problem-turbine-blades/ Heated blades are available as discussed in this presentation about Enercon's turbines: https://www.slideshare.net/WinterwindConference/further-development-of-enercons-deicing-system-christoffer-jonsson-enercon The current existing techonology does not remove the potential for lethal risk of ice debris when it is shed from the blades.

Shadow flicker occurs when a tall wind turbine is between the sun and a person's house, causing the light coming through the house's windows to strobe in and out, as the turbine blades block sunlight

When ice accumulates on wind turbine blades, they become far less efficient.

The turbines are rated at 5MW, and have a rotor blade diameter of 126 metres (413 feet)-- the size of two soccer fields when spread out.

C - Energy, in the Netherlands, have developed a vertical axis tidal turbine the blades of which rotate in the tidal flow, while the horizontal struts linking these blades to the central axis are shaped so as to lift the whole assembly up and down when acted on by wave motion: www.c-energy.nl /

At any time when the sun gets sufficiently low in the sky to cast a shadow of wind turbine blades on a nearby road there would also be shadows of trees.