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4 Ways to Make Wind Turbines Safe for Birds and Bats

One downside to wind power''s success, however, is its impact to wildlife. Birds and bats in particular can be killed by turbine blades. The Audubon Society estimates wind turbines kill up to 328,000 birds per year in North America, a number expected to

Concrete Key to Taller Wind Turbines

Standard wind turbine towers are routinely designed to be 80 meters tall because that is about the maximum height that can be achieved with the limits of the highway system for transporting and delivering major parts. Of course, taller towers would allow the capture of faster, more sustainable wind energy.

The First 500-Kilowatt Curtis Vertical Steam Turbine

Even though commercial produc- tis vertical steam turbine, and manu-tion of the horizontal steam turbine facturing of the horizontal steam tur-was well underway, Emmet decided to bine was discontinued. shift the design of the turbine to a In February 1903, the first vertical vertical configuration. Emmet be- Curtis turbine, a 500-kilowatt unit,

ASMEA178CSAB448-Standard for Wind Turbine Tower Elevators

This standard applies to elevators permanently installed in a wind turbine tower to provide vertical transportation of authorized personnel and their tools and equipment only. Such elevators are typically subjected to extreme temperatures, humidity variations, and substantial horizontal motions. Table of Contents

Floating Turbines Harness Offshore Wind

Floating wind turbines is still new technology, and Principle Power is one of the few companies with hands-on experience with full scale prototypes and financed contracts. ASME recently spoke with Principle Power CTO Dominique Roddier about how his company''s WindFloat— a floating wind turbine platform—works.

Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines Promise Higher Efficiency

A single vertical turbine has an efficiency in the range of 35 to 40 percent (though vertical turbine researchers are sure that number will soon reach 50 as well). But, as Tzanakis and Hansen demonstrated in a paper published in Renewable Energy in June 2021, when working together—and arranged properly—vertical-axis turbines have the

Winterizing Texas''s wind turbines remains a question

More for You: Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines Work Well Together Winterized wind turbines can operate in temperatures that dip as low as 30 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, according to the Canadian government. While no one expects Texas to turn into the Arctic, wind farms in southern states shouldn''t wait to winterize, Webber noted.

Schools and Flocks Inspire Wind Turbine Design

In those cases, even though a turbine might be farther downwind from an upstream turbine, the downwind turbine can actually produce more power than the upstream turbine by taking advantage of those flow acceleration effects. So that local acceleration of the flow is one distinction between the vertical axis and the conventional horizontal."

Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines: Time for a Comeback?

Test, in a wind tunnel and combined wind-wave tank, a proof-of-concept subscale, deep-water floating offshore wind-turbine generator employing a VAWT rotor; Sandia National Laboratories is undertaking a project to test the feasibility of vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) architecture for large-scale deployment in the offshore environment.

Eiffel Tower Goes Green

While the result is clearly 21st century, the actual installation of two vertical axis wind turbines set to produce 10,000 kilowatts hours of electricity per year (enough to power the commercial areas of the tower''s first floor), was done the old-fashioned way, using ropes, winches, and pulleys. A highly skilled team of rope workers were

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