Lidar controls and optimizes wind turbine 13 Jun 2012 "World first"claimed for nacelle-mounted system that measures wind,optimizes performance. Wind power:the laser can measure the whole wind-field in front of a turbine.Researchers ...
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More than a century after General Electric Co. (GE) built its first research laboratory in an upstate New York barn, it’s wooing Silicon Valley engineers in a bid to connect machines the way Facebook Inc. (FB) links people. New hires ...
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EfstonScience, Canada’s science superstore, has launched a new division specializing in solar wind powered street lights. Enlighten Solar and Hybrid Lighting Systems are innovative, off-grid light standards that generate electricity ...
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EfstonScience, Canada’s science superstore, has launched a new division specializing in solar wind powered street lights. Enlighten Solar and Hybrid Lighting Systems are innovative, off-grid light standards that generate electricity ...
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Royal Philips Electronics has started working on a technology that will significantly reduce its dependence on rare earth minerals for creating its light-emitting diode ( LED ) lighting products. "We have launched some innovation ...
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (7011), a Japanese maker of heavy machinery, will suspend construction of its wind turbine manufacturing plant in Fort Smith, Arkansas because of sluggish demand in the U. S. The decision came after the ...
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Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. (7270), maker of the Subaru brand of cars, agreed to sell its wind-turbine business to Hitachi Ltd. (6501), an electronics and industrial machinery manufacturer. The companies will begin discussions on the ...
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A wind turbine operates on simple mechanical and electromagnetic principles that have been known to mankind for about 200 years. The mechanical principles have been in use for far longer than the electromagnetic ones. A wind turbine ...
Sany Group Co. (SANYIZ), owner of China’s biggest machinery maker, said its sales growth rate may slow by about half to 25 percent as the economy decelerates. Sales may exceed 100 billion yuan ($16 billion) in 2012, up from 80 billion ...
After less than two years, The Schaeffler Group has successfully completed the design and build of the world's largest, most powerful test rig for large size bearings. The test rig is now fully operational and was officially opened at ...
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A vertical wind turbine runs on the same principles of energy transfer that are at work in a traditional; or horizontal turbine. The terms horizontal and vertical in this case refer to the axis of rotation. So a horizontal turbine is one ...
Small wind turbines may face efficiency issues. Every energy conversion has a floor, below which energy transfer becomes impossible. This is why power generation can so wildly fluctuate with wind power. Up to 80% of the output of a wind ...
Small wind generators are the type that can be sold as a kit and erected by the do it yourself inclined home or business owner. They range anywhere from 10 kilowatts down to units that produce less than one kilowatt, but can be setup on a ...
Those high-efficiency compact fluorescent lights that are supposed to replace energy-wasting incandescent bulbs have a looming problem: the materials to make them are in short supply. So are materials vital for things like ...
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Tata Power, India's largest integrated private power Company has crossed 300 MW wind power capacity installation in the country. Tata Power's wind farms are spread across four states namely Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, ...
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