Sentences with phrase «wind turbine tower»

And so, Sritharan and Schmitz watched as Doug Wood, engineering specialist and manager of Iowa State's Structural Engineering Research Laboratory, typed in the commands for the lab's hydraulic equipment to push or pull with bigger loads on a full - size test segment of a 100 - meter concrete wind turbine tower.

Which of three ways to connect the columns and panels works best for wind turbine towers?

Schmitz, an Iowa State graduate student of civil, construction and environmental engineering, and Sri Sritharan, Iowa State's Wilson Engineering Professor and leader of the's College of Engineering's Wind Energy Initiative, were trying to answer some basic questions about using concrete panels and columns to build wind turbine towers using prefabricated, easily transportable components.

«Concrete for taller wind turbine towers passes tests, could help expand wind energy nationwide.»

He calls the technology «Hexcrete,» which can also be combined with steel tubular technology to create hybrid wind turbine towers.

Sritharan said the models show using Hexcrete technology to build 120 - to 140 - meter wind turbine towers could drop the levelized costs 10 to 18 percent under the costs of current 80 - meter technologies.

One solution is called «Hexcrete» wind turbine towers.

The bill also increases from 10 percent to 15 percent the amount of power that utilities must get from renewable sources, which could mean hundreds of additional industrial wind turbine towers in rural communities.

Power from the Wind covers every aspect of small - scale wind energy systems, from an initial site assessment to wind turbine towers, from inverters to batteries, should an owner decide to create an off - grid or grid - intertied system with a battery backup.

After building more than 20,000 wind turbine towers, why have Germany and Denmark been unable to close a single coal - fired power plant?

There are environmental costs in mining and smelting the steel from which wind turbine towers are made.

A word about Wind A 1 Gigawatt wind farm would have 200 x 5 Megawatt wind turbine towers.

Not exact matches

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.)

Last week, for instance, President Obama headed to Newton, Iowa, to highlight a company making towers for wind turbines in a factory originally built for Maytag.

Where silos used to top the landscape, they are now towered over by wind turbines.

Blade by blade, section by section of tower housings and foundations, the pieces that will make up 36 giant wind turbines in Chautauqua County are lumbering down county and state highways, a U.S. highway and an interstate, from Hamburg to Arkwright.

The prominence of that LG tower pales in comparison to 400 - foot wind turbines that get built with impunity on less famous scenery.

Electricity generated by the rotors travels down the tether, eliminating the need for the massive cement towers holding traditional wind turbines.

A massive wind turbine — capable of turning the breeze into two million watts of power — has 40 - meter - long blades made from fiberglass, towers 90 meters above the ground, weighs hundreds of metric tons, and fundamentally relies on roughly 300 kilograms of a soft, silvery metal known as neodymium — a so - called rare earth.

The design, which he claims is hurricane resistant and easily transported, could allow turbines to tap winds 90 miles offshore without requiring expensive towers.

Offshore wind turbines will line the Atlantic coast; vast solar arrays will cover swaths of the southwestern desert; transmission towers will cradle high - voltage direct current lines and take electricity from the windy Great Plains to the populated coasts.

The Vestas Tower Crane, still in the prototype phase, is designed to attach to a cable lowered down from a small crane located inside the turbine tower's nacelle (the cover housing the wind turbine's generator and gearbox) and hoisted upTower Crane, still in the prototype phase, is designed to attach to a cable lowered down from a small crane located inside the turbine tower's nacelle (the cover housing the wind turbine's generator and gearbox) and hoisted uptower's nacelle (the cover housing the wind turbine's generator and gearbox) and hoisted upward.

Could concrete towers be a practical way to raise turbine towers from today's 80 meters to the steadier winds at 100 meters and taller?

«Engineers design, test taller, high - strength concrete towers for wind turbines.»

Could purple wind turbines decrease the carnage wreaked in the night by looming towers with spinning blades on Halloween's iconic flying mammals?

The «Living Tower» design seen here is complete with solar panels, a rainwater purification system, and two large wind turbines on top for energy production.

A VAWT is a wind turbine design where the generator is vertically oriented in the tower, rather than sitting horizontally on top.

The City of Light's green makeover touched the iconic Eiffel Tower last week as it ramped up two onsite wind turbines.

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* Human impact: Loss of habitat due to development, radio / TV / cellular phone towers, high - rise glass buildings, power lines, wind turbines, wetland destruction to name a few have had the greatest impact on the decline of native species around the world.

Every year, vehicle collisions account for about 14 million bird deaths, communication towers 221,000, and wind energy turbines kill about 45,000.

Building wind turbines and towers also involve industrial processes such as concrete and steel making.

Can you imagine the Eiffel Tower with wind turbines?

The device uses a helium - filled, inflatable shell to enable it to ascend to high altitudes, which give it access to stronger and more consistent winds than tower - mounted turbines, and the generated power is sent to the ground via tethers, which also hold the device steady

Each Vestas turbine tower section travels from the factory to the wind farm site by way of train, truck, boat, or any combination of the three.

Floating wind turbines can be placed away from the coast in deeper water as they don't need to be anchored to sea floor - mounted towers, which are typically limited to a water depth of up to 260 ft (80 m).

Taller wind - turbine towers will be crucial in expanding wind power nationwide, enabling wind energy production in all 50 states, according to studies by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, based in Golden, Colorado.

For instance, since no U.S. ship was capable of hoisting the 400 - ton nacelles, or generators, 330 feet to the tops of the Block Island turbine towers, Deepwater Wind had to lease a Norwegian vessel to do the job.

With wind farm operators and turbine technicians active at 295 wind farms across Canada, workforce development and a range of health and safety best practices in areas like electrical safety, fall arrest equipment, up - tower rescues, confined spaces and ergonomics were on the summit agenda.

He said wind turbines have disrupted the service from Lismore Cooperative Telephone Co.'s wireless broadband connection on the Wilmont water tower.

Decades before wind turbines came on to the scene wildlife biologists routinely used daily searches when looking for carcasses around communication towers.

As nocturnal migrants, Swainson's Thrushes are also frequent victims of collisions with glass, towers, and wind turbines.

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Researchers are working on high - frequency noise generators that would be audible to bats and drive them away from wind turbines, ultraviolet lights to illuminate towers and repel bats, and behavioral studies that would help the industry fine - tune when it should feather turbines.

Dr. Mason cites evidence that many small turbines have collapsed in close proximity to human dwellings [1; 2; 3], and recently two big Danish wind turbines lost blades and scattered sharp pieces of glass fiber up to 500 meters from the tower base in high winds [4.].

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Blake has spent 3 1/2 yrs maintaining and troubleshooting wind turbines and teaching tower rescue training.

The practical effect of increasing the mandate will be the erection of several hundred more industrial wind turbines and towers in many rural communities.

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The amendments require wind turbines to have a property - line setback that is four times the height of the tower.