"Our boilers and combined heat and power turbine are over 20 years old now and like anything else it wears out, " he said.
The difference between turbocharging and supercharging is simple: a turbocharger boosts engine air pressure by using exhaust gas to power a turbine that pushes more air into the combustion chamber.
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Around one ton of REE based permanent magnets is needed to provide each MW of wind-turbine power.
Two or three others were hospitalized and released after contact with radioactive water in the partially flooded basement of a Fukushima Daiichi turbine power building.
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Jore believes they can leverage the CORE motor technology in a wind turbine power generation system at Boulder Wind Power in Colorado for residential and commercial deployments.
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Simple math shows that a marginal gas or oil well has a power density at least 22 times that of a wind turbine while a nuclear power plant has a power density that is more than 8 times that of a solar photovoltaic facility.
If built, the single turbine would power his farm and 350 homes, he added.
At the same time, Mr Bratland wants the power output of each turbine to be raised to perhaps 6MW, and he wants it all to be cheaper than it is today.
The main reason for these projects is not to develop primary power sources for jet-turbine powered aircraft, but to build small, highly efficient fuel cells that could be used to make greener airliners.
The revolutionary pump, the Jarvik 2000, uses a turbine to increase the power of each heartbeat.
It is understood the alarm was raised when the fire broke out in a turbine hall at the power station.
The damage to the plant is being repaired, turbine by turbine, with full power expected to be restored by next year.
The other aspects of the build include the turbine halls, standby power generators and a pumping station for the cooling water, interim waste storage facilities as well as a visitors' centre.
The 10 megawatts of power that will be generated by the Sound of Islay turbine farm pales into insignificance when compared to the output of a large nuclear or coal power station, which according to American hydro energy non-profit the Ocean Energy Council, can produce up to 100 times as much electricity.
Heat from the sun boils water to run a steam turbine generator, which delivers power to the grid.
It is called the 5M - short for 5 megawatts - has a 126m diameter, and the one turbine has the ability to power 4, 500 households.
"As a former power station, Tate Modern's Turbine Hall is an ideal venue for Kraftwerk's explorations of technology, energy and rhythm, " said gallery director Chris Dercon.
Scottish Power completed preliminary trials of the giant undersea turbine in the fast-flowing coastal waters off the Orkney Islands.
Independent fashion retailer Mackays Group is to develop its own wind turbine sites to meet all the power needs of its 300 UK stores.
Across the road is the SAB Miller PLC's "World of Beer" and Turbine Hall, previously an old power plant and now the headquarters of mining firm AngloGold Ashanti.
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They'd lived through more than one "revolutionary" power train--Wankel engines, gas-turbine engines, batteries.
They had previously said one of the reasons they opposed the turbine was the lack of wind to power it.
The deputy first minister highlighted investments from electronics firm Mitsubishi, Spanish wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa and Korean firm Doosan Power Systems.
Higher as in 1, 200 degrees Celsius, which would heat air hot enough to run a high efficiency turbine like those used in fossil fuel power plants.
It was estimated in 2008 that to meet the U.K. wind-power goal by 2020 would require building one new turbine every day for the next twelve years.
The device is a hinged flap connected to the sea-bed which uses wave power to deliver high-pressure water to an onshore turbine.
One WindTamer customer is the U.S. Army, which purchased last year a mobile trailer-mounted turbine and renewable energy storage unit containing the Power on Demand system that the military would be able to move around even in battle zones.
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At Club Surya the power shortfall is made up by solar panels and a wind turbine.
It found that the turbine produced one megawatt of electricity, enough to power 500 homes and businesses.
Blue H, a wind-power company based in Britain, has developed a floating wind turbine based on designs first used by oil-drilling platforms.
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