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Since 2008, official numbers peg eagle deaths due to wind turbine blades at 67.

An employees passes finished wind turbine blades at the Siemens AG plant in Aalborg, Denmark (Photo: Timothy Fadek / Bloomberg / Getty)

Three years earlier they deposited a wind turbine blade at the gallery, with an official request for it to be made part of the museum's permanent collection.

Not exact matches

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.

But according to a source, it is the prevailing winds at these location that make the two blade turbines actually quite unsuitable for conditions in the region, because they can't stand up to the wind shears here.

On a blustery, overcast day last week, the blades of the 156 - foot wind turbine just west of the grapevines at Pindar Vineyards cut through the air with a quiet whooshing noise.

The turbine blades at the state's largest wind farm are whirling.

Biello: And they do have some more aggressive policies than even the U.S. at present as far as renewable energy goes, whether those who actually realized they have had a lot of problems with kind of wind farms that didn't perform up to expectations, but they do have fairly aggressive targets for how much energy it needs to come from renewable resources like the wind and the sun, they have become the manufacturer, as in all things, for Photovoltaics and the wind turbine blades that are basically powering the green revolution in the West.

The differences between wind turbine and ceiling fan blades arise from the contrasting design criteria: the wind turbine is intended to capture high - velocity wind to generate electricity efficiently; the ceiling fan needs to move air at low velocity with inexpensive components.

The next step will be to prove the technology at wind - turbine scale, with blades that can have diameters of up to 400 feet.

«For the size of equipment, a modern wind turbine — typically 250 feet across, blade tip to blade tip — can generate a megawatt and a half to 2 megawatts at peak output,» he says.

This could be because like wind turbines, the blades rotate at relatively slow speeds.

In addition to becoming more prone to catastrophic failure, the turbines also become less efficient at higher speeds because they become more like a wall than a rotor, blocking the wind from flowing past the rapidly rotating blades, says Asfaw Beyene, a professor of engineering at San Diego State University in California, who was not involved with the work.

Now, by drawing inspiration from the flexible wings of insects, scientists have found a way to make wind turbine blades 35 % more efficient at producing energy.

Last year Ohio legislators passed a law requiring wind turbine blades to be at least a quarter - mile from the nearest property line.

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The tip of the highest turbine blade at the wind farm stretches close to 500 feet in the air above the base.

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.

But the efficiency of wind turbines is almost at its maximum already for any given size, since we also understand the physics of wind blades very well.

Days after several Freeborn County wind turbines had to be shut down after a chunk of ice fell off a blade and landed on a passing semi truck, a family whose home lies within feet of the proposed Freeborn Wind Farm project said they're concerned about something similar happening at their hwind turbines had to be shut down after a chunk of ice fell off a blade and landed on a passing semi truck, a family whose home lies within feet of the proposed Freeborn Wind Farm project said they're concerned about something similar happening at their hWind Farm project said they're concerned about something similar happening at their home.

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.

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.

Installation of the Block Island Wind Farm's turbine towers, blades and nacelles is scheduled to begin in early August at the project site, roughly three miles off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island.

An indication of how turbine technology is evolving is that 30 % of wind farm applications received this year by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) were for turbines taller than 152.4 metres (500 - feet) at the blade tip — the traditional industry - wide «soft cap» limit.

The blade tips of a wind turbine can spin at speeds of up to 80 meters per second, or about 180 miles per hour.

Ohio House passes legislation Jim Provance — The Blade — November 22, 2014 COLUMBUS — Ohio's fledgling wind energy industry is balking at a largely ignored provision of a massive environmental bill overwhelmingly approved in the House this week, arguing it is designed to throw one more wrench into its turbines.

Several questions have been raised about whether rotating blades on wind turbines are interfering with radar at airports and military installations.

The new factory is expected to make the enormous blades for wind turbines, which can be longer than an Olympic swimming pool, as well as the generator units that sit at the top of the turbine.

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The blades of a wind turbine at an Australian Antarctic base broke off and narrowly missed a storage building as they crashed to the ground, reports Phys.org, forcing the icy outpost to switch to backup power.

Making wind turbines larger is getting difficult, in part because they've have grown so large that the wind conditions at the highest point of the blades» sweep can be very different than those at the bottom.

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.

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If the wind speed increases above the cut - out speed the blades are «feathered» (turned about their axes so as not to produce rotational force at the hub) and the turbine stops.

One solution, which is what researchers at Purdue are working on, is to have a turbine with «smart» blades that can shape - shift depending on wind conditions.

The Vortex wind generator represents a fairly radical break with conventional wind turbine design, in that it has no spinning blades (or any moving parts to wear out at all), and looks like nothing more than a giant straw that oscillates in the wind.

Although the weather wasn't ideal for spectators, it did keep the blades of the city's largest wind turbine turning at a rate of about 48 revolutions per minute.

The fuel that turns the turbine blades is free; this means that once a wind farm is built, the price of electricity it produces is set and remains at that level for the entire life of the wind farm.

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.

Prior to joining Brooks Kushman, she gained patent experience as an in - house clerk at a prominent auto company and technical experience at Owens Corning developing wind turbine blade technology.