Sentences with phrase «which spins a turbine»
The cumulative heat from this process boils water into steam, which spins a turbine to create electricity.
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As in a conventional fossil fuel or nuclear power plant, that steam spins turbines, which generate electricity.
Hot rocks at depth boil the water into steam, which rises back to the surface to spin a turbine and generate electricity.
The way that the torque converter works is by using turbines and stators which get spun using the transmission fluid.
A turbocharger creates boost (pressure) through the spinning of a small turbine (pushed by exhaust gases) that shares a shaft with a similar - looking compressor, which delivers the extra air to the engine.
Other highlights include an integrated exhaust manifold built into the cylinder head — which delivers a shorter flow path for hot exhaust gases and allows the catalytic converter to heat up faster for reduced cold start emissions — and a turbine speed sensor which allows its turbos to spin at up to 240,000 rpm (220,000 minimum) for higher torque and horsepower output.
La Florida is a solar thermal plant -LSB-...] that uses parabolic troughs to heat liquid in tubes, which in turn spins turbines and produces electricity.
Under normal circumstances, wind turbine blades are left to turn slowly in the wind until they reach «cut - in speed,» the point at which they're spinning fast enough to begin generating power.
The technology, which EnviroMission calls a Solar Tower power station, uses the sun's heat to warm a large body of air which then rises through a vertical wind tunnel causing large turbines to spin and generate electricity.
A turbine at the base of the chimney generates electricity as the air rushes by... His scheme replaces the chimney with a tornado - like vortex of spinning air, which could extend several kilometres into the atmosphere.»
Other times, the spinning of the turbine blades creates areas of different air pressure, which result in physical trauma as the bats attempt to navigate them.
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 Hywind Scotland array's turbine, the Hywind 2, is an evolutionary step on from the prototype, Hywind 1, which has been spinning solo at a deepwater site off the west coast of Norway since 2009.