Sentences with phrase «which turns turbines»

The reflected sunlight heats water in the boilers to make steam, which turns turbines to generate electricity — enough to power more than 140,000 homes.

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.

The heated liquid is used to generate steam, which turns a turbine, generating electricity.

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Inside the dam, there are turbines, which turn from the water pressure and connect to electricity generators.

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!

Everyone knows that wind turbine which are built on the most windy cost will end up standing still for maybe 50 % of the time, I have a large wind farm next to me right now it's windy and two out of the twelve turbines are turning, most days we have one turning and I've yet to see more then four turning.

NYPA officials says replacing the turbines will help the provider continue to deliver low - cost power to its customers, including business which, in turn, provide more than 400,000 jobs throughout the state.

Fischetti: Right, if you think about a long trough that reflects sunlight, it concentrates the sunlight along a pipe that runs parallel to the long trough and concentrate [s] the sunlight like a magnifying glass, [which] heats the fluid inside this pipe really hot, so the hot fluid circulates out to a somewhat traditional power plant where it's allowed to expand into high pressure gas that turns a turbine which generates electricity.

In a conventional geared turbine, the rotor turns a large gear, which turns a smaller one, which turns the generator.

The heat boils a separate tank of water and turns it to steam, which in turn drives turbines that produce electricity.

The turbines, in turn, drive generators that produce electricity, which is sold to the local power company.

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.

The U.S. employs 104 light - water reactors to generate 20 percent of its electricity today; the reactors moderate uranium fission and the heat it produces with water, which is also boiled into steam to turn an electricity - generating turbine.

This heat is then passed to a separate, secondary cooling circuit in which water is turned to steam to drive the turbines and generators.

The heat turns the water to pressurized steam, which is then used to turn generator - turbines in order to produce electricity.

All geothermal power plants use steam to turn large turbines, which run electrical generators.

This steam in turn powers turbines, which are used to produce the electricity that supplies the surrounding community.

The turbine burns diesel fuel to drive the generator, which in turn charges up a 28kWh battery pack that supplies power to the electric motors.

The Indian - born sculptor, who has had major shows at the Royal Academy in London and the Turbine Hall in recent years, said he had been attracted to Berlin in part by its strong artistic community, which includes major British artist friends of his such as Douglas Gordon and Tacita Dean; they, in turn, have been drawn here by the strong encouragement given to the arts.

I am amazed that hundreds of wind turbines and wind turbine farms are being discussed before any serious studies have been done on how electricity demand could be reduced, which in turn of course would reduce the number of wind turbines needed!

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.

As the wind makes the turbines turn, they drive a turbine and it is this turbine which generates the electricity.

Cornelius noted that due to the slow speed at which the blades rotate, marine life is at little risk:» The turbines turn at six to eight revolutions per minute, so are incredibly slow turning and will have zero impact on the surrounding environment.»

They function by heating water to create steam, which then turns turbines, generating electricity.

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.

APS» Solana Generating Station, near Gila Bend, is a 280 MW Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) power plant that includes storage, providing up to 6 hours of electricity after the sun sets by using molten salt to store heat, which then turns a steam turbine.

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.

As the blades of a wind turbine turn, the kinetic energy of the wind is converted into mechanical energy, which is transmitted through a drive shaft to an electrical generator in the nacelle.

Energy from combustion is used to heat water, which in turn powers a steam turbine.

This heated fluid is then used to turn water into steam, which drives a turbine and generates electricity [FIGURE 2].

Solar thermal generation is where the reflectors are concentrated on a central receiver which then heats a liquid such as sodium, which in turn heats the water to generate steam that drives a turbine coupled to a generator.

I am waiting for the day that your turbines stop turning, which will be in the near future.

Turbines are getting bigger (like way bigger), which allows them to turn more wind into more energy more regularly.

Specifically, the two turbines have been increased from 8.4 MW to 8.8 MW, which in turn increases EOWDC's output to 93.2 MW, and as such it will generate 70 % of Aberdeen's domestic electricity demand while displacing 134,128 tonnes of CO2 annually.

It gets burned, which turns water into steam, which drives turbines, which then generate electricity.

However, the increase in the wind power O&M market is leading to an increase in companies providing specialized wind turbine O&M services, which in turn is decreasing the cost of O&M services.

These facilities generate solar power by using lenses and reflectors to concentrate sunlight and use it to heat fluids, which can in turn produce steam to drive a turbine.

The turbines turn generators, which make electricity.

With this water can be heated to between 500ºC and 2000ºC turning the water into steam which can then drive a steam turbine and produce electricity.

The company's wave - power system acts as a sort of hydraulic pump that converts the vertical motion of waves into pressurized sea water, which in turn drives a piston that forces sea water through a turbine.

In 2005, the nation's thermoelectric power plants — which boil water to create steam, which in turn drives turbines to produce electricity — withdrew as much water as farms did, and more than four times as much as all U.S. residences.

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.

A heat transfer fluid heated in the receiver up to around 600ºC is used to generate steam, which, in turn, is used in a conventional turbine - generator to produce electricity.

A: If your home currently gets its energy from a utility company, you will need an on - grid turbine, Skystream, which helps decrease your monthly utility bill by generating energy your home draws on before it turns to your utility company for energy.

It is possible to build wind turbines without rare earth elements, but doing so increases the complexity, decreases reliability, and jacks the generator weight up, which in turn means all the support structures have to be more massive, all of which results in higher cost.

The combustion of coal in power generating plants is used to make steam which, in turn, operates turbines and generators.

Each time someone turns on the water to shower, wash dishes, or flush the toilet, the flow of water through the plumbing is used to turn the turbine, which then converts the motion into electrical current.

The Orange Power Pump, created by GotWind, the renewable energy experts, harnesses kinetic energy from an air bed foot pump, a standard piece of camping equipment, which in turn drives a turbine within the Power Pump.

Besides the physical obstruction, the turning blades create vortices of turbulence behind them (which is why the turbines themselves are placed so far from each other).

Those mirrors, which spread across an area four times the size of New York's Central Park, focus sunlight onto receivers atop three 45 - story power towers, boiling a liquid that turns turbines to create electricity.