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Wind turbines generate electricity most (70 - 85 %) of the time, although their output varies according to the strength of the wind.
Wind turbines generate electricity without polluting the air, emitting greenhouse gases, or producing waste of any kind.
Wind turbines generate power from the cut - in wind speed right up to the cut - out wind speed.
Wind turbines generate small amounts of expensive, unreliable electricity from gargantuan installations on thousands of acres.
Now, a number of solar power installations and a few small
wind turbines generate local electricity.
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Wind turbines generate electricity by removing energy from the wind, so a larger number of wind turbines should result in a slowdown of the winds in the lower atmosphere,» Mechem said.
(Most modern
wind turbines generate anywhere from 700 kilowatts to 2.5 megawatts each — enough for 200 to 750 typical homes.)
This single
wind turbine generates electricity for Anaba's tasting room, wine storage, office operations and irrigation pumps for the two estate vineyards.
«Within a few months,
a wind turbine generates enough electricity to pay back all of the energy it took to build it,» she said.
There are certain common themes that run the world over: neighbours forced to live with incessant
wind turbine generated low - frequency noise and infrasound suffer; and the wind industry denies all responsibility, for anything, whether caused in this world or the next.
We saw a sketch of an electric car drawing power from the wind and storing energy from the grid, a photo of farmer taking off a hay crop while
a wind turbine generates royalty income for his family from the same field, an illustration of wind energy at the centre of a clean and vibrant cityscape, and many more examples of how Canadians are becoming more conscious about where our electricity comes from, how we use it, and how our choices can contribute to a more prosperous and sustainable world.
We are dismayed to see people being forced from their homes due to incessant,
wind turbine generated low - frequency noise and infrasound; and horrified as we witnessed those in positions of power not only fail to help those people, but turn on these victims of a government - sanctioned, subsidy - soaked industry.
``... gleaming white
wind turbines generating carbon - free electricity carpet chaparral - covered ridges and march down into valleys of Joshua trees.»
Well before the official sources such as IESO report on how much power industrial
wind turbines generated and how much was curtailed (constrained, or paid for but not added to the power grid), my friend Scott Luft has published his estimates for both the former and the latter for the month of November.
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A wind turbine generates as much emissions - free electricity as about 2000 typical roof - top solar PV installations.»
Just over a decade ago, a typical wind farm with 2.5 megawatts of
wind turbines generated less than 4 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year.
Driving neighbours nuts with incessant
wind turbine generated low - frequency noise and infra - sound is what the wind industry does best.
Not exact matches
Adding solar panels or a small
wind turbine on the roof of a building will likely
generate enough energy to power most offices or small shops!
The technology overlaps are valuable: For example, carbon - fiber - reinforced composites developed for jet - engine fan blades are used in GE's
wind -
turbine fan blades, and ceramics developed for electricity -
generating turbines are used in jet engines.
Since electricity
generated from solar and
wind flows into the grid, Google simply has to invest in enough
turbines and solar panels to cover its total energy consumption to make good on its goal.
To power Tesla's electric car empire, the company has joined hands with Vestas, a top
wind turbine manufacturer, to create a storage system that would make power
generated from
wind useful during quiet days in the jetstreams.
Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass
generating plants and
wind turbines.
These
wind turbines are the perfect example of smart, connected devices that
generate enormous volumes of data and provide significant opportunities for analysis and optimization.
With Obama's historic victory in November, I began to dream of a new order — of acres of new
wind turbines silently
generating clean energy, of sleek bullet trains seamlessly linking our great metropolises, and of a modernized tax system under which the rich would finally pay their fair share.
Through a partnership with Eneco UK, the 20 -
turbine wind farm, located just south of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, will
generate electricity equivalent to -LSB-...]
Instead, the glittering prizes are going to Denmark, on target to
generate some 50 % of its electricity from
wind by 2020 — and with a renewable industry currently supplying around half the world's
wind turbines.
In total, however, Wyoming County has four
wind farms with 237
turbines generating power, according to the Wyoming County Business Center.
Wind turbines that
generate clean energy.
Americans are increasingly installing
wind turbines near their homes, farms and businesses to
generate their own energy, concludes a new report released today.
Presently the company's airborne
wind turbine can
generate 30 kilowatts, compared to the approximately 600 kW a traditional
wind turbine might produce.
Makani's tethered carbon fiber wings fly between 800 and 1,950 feet above the ground while their mounted rotors
generate electricity, serving as a
wind turbine in mid-air.
Electricity
generated by the rotors travels down the tether, eliminating the need for the massive cement towers holding traditional
wind turbines.
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.
Wind turbines already
generate electricity almost as inexpensively as fossil fuels.
Magnets are the key to
generating electricity, of course, and electricity is the key to the use of cleaner sources of energy — whether
wind turbines or electric vehicles.
Therefore, it would actually be more energetically efficient to shut down a
wind turbine than to store the surplus electricity it
generates.»
They braved the harsh conditions in the middle of the night to set up a large searchlight with specially designed reflecting optics to
generate a gigantic light sheet next to the 130 - meter - tall
wind turbine for illuminating the snow particles in a 36 - meter - wide - by -36-meter-high area.
«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.»
Solar panels can only
generate power when the sun's shining, and
wind turbines can only
generate power when the
wind blows.
«Just like
wind turbines, these fans
generate turbulence and mixing, producing a warming near the surface at night.»
«For
wind turbines, we want to apply them to
generate more
wind power at a lower cost of electricity.
Wind turbines have an unusual way of
generating hot air.
The roof of the house also contains some green energy elements: vertical
wind turbines to
generate electricity from air currents, and photovoltaic awning to soak up sun energy and provides shade.
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.
«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.
«If we had
wind machines in the upper atmosphere, we could
generate power ten times greater than we do with
wind turbines here on Earth,» says Hendrix.
Propeller
wind turbines are the most common way of using one of the most abundant energy sources on Earth to
generate electricity.
Although solar thermal collectors are better than photovoltaic panels or
wind turbines at
generating reliable power around the clock, solar thermal power is also expensive; at present energy costs, it would require government subsidies to compete with coal and natural gas, which can
generate electricity much more cheaply.
During the day, when demand for electricity is higher, power will be
generated by both the
wind turbines and water flowing from the upper reservoir to the lower.
When demand for electricity dies down at night, power
generated by the
wind turbines will be used to pump water from the lower reservoir back to the upper reservoir, replenishing it.