Sentences with phrase «when turbines»

I have lived at the above address, which is about three miles away as the crow flies, all my life in peace and quiet until about two years ago when the turbines were switched on.
They also guarantee revenue even when turbines are asked not to produce wind power.
In Australia the Civil Air Safety Authority (CASA) decides how bright the lights must be when the turbines are in the vicinity (approximately 30 km) of an aerodrome.
Temperatures above 43 ° are rare where wind farms are built, and often occur on calm days when turbines are either not working or working at low capacity.
Battery storage compounds capture surplus energy from wind farms during high winds, releasing it back into the power stations when the turbines are slack.
It points out that the consumer subsidy is paid only when turbines produce electricity, meaning there is a strong incentive for wind farms to be properly maintained to protect them from wear and tear.
Update: A problem with the route will delay when the turbine gets moving again.
When the turbine approached its top speed of 483 km per hour, writhing lightning bolts cracked from the sphere and branched into trees of lavender light.
E.g., LotRO may not have been helped when Turbine decided they wanted to be in the MOBA market.
Then we had the slide experience, courtesy of Carsten Holler, in 2007, when the Turbine Hall became an amusement park, and we all hurtled down those twisty silver chutes, heads spinning, disembodied, displaced.
In cases when your turbine is producing more energy than you are using, you sell the excess electricity back to the electric company.
However, it is that efficient at only a narrow range (5 - 10 mph) of wind speeds midway between the cut - in speed (when the turbine starts to spin) and the «rated» speed (when the turbine generates at is full, or nameplate, capacity, e.g., a 2 - MW turbine generating at 2 MW).
That means when their turbine is generating more power than they are using, the electric meter spins backward.
When a turbine performs abnormally, technicians must determine the cause and make the necessary repairs.

Not exact matches

There's no word on if and when the mini jet turbine backpack will be available for purchase, but we imagine it won't be cheap.
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.)
That's only the tip of the turbine when it comes to supply these days.
One, build so many wind turbines and solar panels that you can fulfill America's energy need even when there's barely any wind or sun.
FRANKFURT, Feb 8 - Vestas is betting on geared wind turbine technology to meet the ambitious profit - margin target it promised when it reported quarterly results on Wednesday.
«When I look at the wind farms and all of these huge turbines, I'm just so proud of what our team has accomplished,» says Abel.
So who cares how long the lease is, especially when Murphy's Law and its corollaries are funded: to remove the Wind Turbines when they become obsolete due to the next era's energy resource being perfected, damages during construction, etc..
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.
«People don't naturally think of mining when they think of clean energy, but metals and minerals are key ingredients for solar panels, wind turbines and electric cars.
In 2009, Anaba Wines became the first winery in Northern California to utilize wind power when owner, John Sweazey installed a 45 - foot Skystream 3.7 wind turbine on the property to harness the anabatic winds.
But when steam is contaminated with impurities it can present corrosion and deposit risk to turbines, filters and
We would run three turbines now, anytime we need peak load, we will bring in an additional turbine or two and when the load goes down we will keep reducing again so that we can nurse the lake back to its original level.
The communitywide debate about the South Fork Wind Farm, a proposed 15 - turbine installation approximately 36 miles from Montauk, continued on Oct. 4 when the East Hampton Town Trustees» harbor management committee and the town's energy...
The story said Ghana is paying $ 510 million for ten power turbines when the market value of the turbines is $ 220 million.
The state also wants Indian Point to install cooling towers that would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to mitigate harm to wildlife when the plant sucks in billions of gallons of Hudson River water to cool its turbines.
Encroachment is a key factor that is considered when the federal government is reviewing military bases for potential shut down and 70 individual, 600 - foot tall wind turbines, located on the edge of Lake Ontario near the base, could be considered major objects of encroachment.
It can respond to increased power demands faster than a turbine can spool up, and it can also save excess power and then supply it when needed.
«In the round - the - clock process we produce hydrogen and electricity during daylight, store hydrogen and oxygen, and then when solar energy is not available we use hydrogen to produce electricity using a turbine - based hydrogen - power cycle,» Tawarmalani said.
Even when foreign companies such as General Electric or Suzlon supply the turbines as much as 70 percent of the components are made in China, everything except for bearings and electrical controls.
«At a time when issues of noise are one of the main barriers to the building of wind turbines, for example, a method for reducing the noise they generate is most welcome.»
WHEN the wind stops blowing and turbines slow down, we have to resort to coal and gas - powered stations for our energy needs.
The past year looks like the turning point when alternatives to fossil fuels — everything from solar energy, wind turbines, ethanol, and the hybrid car — finally hit the mainstream.
Solar panels can only generate power when the sun's shining, and wind turbines can only generate power when the wind blows.
RoR dams can cause a spike in methylmercury in two ways — they can form small reservoirs, called headponds, which flood soil and create slow - flowing, low - oxygen environments; or they can create higher temperatures in the stream as a result of the reduced flow conditions when portions of the stream are diverted to the turbines.
The P2 generates energy when its large floating tubes, connected by hinged joints, bob in the waves, moving hydraulic rams that pump high - pressure fluid to drive turbine.
When the bulge reaches the end, the pressurised water drives a turbine.
Arias says Torresol can either run the plant until the battery is exhausted, or it can modulate the power of the turbine during darkness so it is at its maximum between 11 and 11.30 pm, when electricity demand — and price — peaks, «so we are able to reach the next day without stopping the turbine».
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.
But when the two utilities with agreements to buy power from the 130 - turbine wind farm pulled out in 2015, the terminal was widely panned as a waste of taxpayer funds.
For example, when designing a wind turbine you might have to make trade - offs between how much airflow you can get versus how much energy it will generate.
When demand is high, the salt's heat turns water into steam to drive a turbine, making electricity.
It's less costly to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels than coal - fired power plants when climate change costs and other health impacts are factored in, according to a new study published in Springer's Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.
These two turbines are expected to generate more than 120 kilowatts of energy and will be easier for the company to remove when repairs are needed.
When energy is needed, the water is released to flow through turbines, generating electricity.
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.
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