Small wind turbines may be as small as a fifty watt generator for boat or caravan use.

The Brush wind turbine had a rotor 17 m (56 foot) in diameter and was mounted on an 18 m (60 foot) tower.

Not surprisingly, the leading Danish wind producer is today urging strong action on climate change that would imply even more sales of wind turbines.

In the past five years the industrialised skyline has been changed by the addition of large numbers of wind turbines taking advantage of the exposed coastal conditions.

We see scary pictures of dry riverbeds (the result of global warming), along with plenty of pretty solutions like wind turbines and solar panels.

The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) defines small wind turbines as those smaller than or equal to 100 kilowatts.

The wind turbines are expected to provide 11 to 15 of the towers' total power consumption, or approximately 1.1 to 1.3 GWh a year.

Today, it is often remarked that Denmark is providing every third terrestrial wind turbine in the world, creating billions in income and jobs.

There have been a wide range of techniques used to spin a turbine's rotor, from steam heated using fossil fuel (including coal, gas and oil) or nuclear energy, falling water (hydroelectric power) and wind (wind power).

And the other way around, if you increase the speed of rotor three and decrease the speed of rotor one, then the robot pitches forward.

Turbines equipped with advanced cooling.

These policies include a cap and trade initiative known as the Emissions Trading Scheme, steep fuel taxes, and ambitious programs to build windmills and other renewable energy projects.

A good illustration is Denmark, which early on provided huge subsidies for wind power, building thousands of inefficient turbines around the country from the 1980 s onwards.

In hot gas (gas turbine), turbines are driven directly by gases produced by the combustion of natural gas or oil.

A few years ago, however, the Danish Economic Council conducted a full evaluation of the wind turbine industry, taking into account not only its beneficial effects on jobs and production, but also the subsidies that it receives.

The Kite Wind Generator (KWG) or Kitegen is claimed to eliminate all the static and dynamic problems that prevent the increase of the power (in terms of dimensions) obtainable from the traditional horizontal axis wind turbine generators.

For example, cutting a ton of CO2 with on shore wind turbines in Germany probably costs about 35, avoiding about 14 cents of climate damage per dollar. But offshore wind turbines cost about 150 per ton of CO2, avoiding just three cents of climate damage per dollar.

If you stand still, you get swept off.

The first is the revolving door between the industry and regulatory bodies.

The moment the fecal matter hits the rotating turbine, you can start shooting at people.

In the case of a machine with field coils, a current must flow in the coils to generate the field, otherwise no power is transferred to or from the rotor.

Four little engines, 22 kilos thrust each, turbines working with kerosene.

There is no legislation against this revolving door in Australia.

On 31 July 1945 the Lynn plant became the Aircraft Gas Turbine Division .

It is the first skyscraper in the world to integrate wind turbines into its design.

So in this picture you see that rotor four is spinning faster and rotor two is spinning slower.

I feel sort of dizzy. You look pale. You'd better take a day off.

Certainly, this seems to be the prevailing bet in the spin on global warming.

He said to me, 'Please stand beside me, and kill me for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.'

And he said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.

A stroke is the cause of isolated dizziness in 0.7 of people who present to the emergency room.

A second prototype with an improved rotor design was unveiled in March 2004 at Rosvertol.

The wind may turn, but the animal will turn always its nose into the wind.

The name of a quarter wind is typically X by Y , where X is a principal wind and Y is a cardinal wind.

This conclusion has been reached by research conducted by Charles Meneveau of the Johns Hopkins University, and Johan Meyers of Leuven University in Belgium, based on computer simulations that take into account the detailed interactions among wind turbines (wakes) as well as with the entire turbulent atmospheric boundary layer.

Wind energy

The wind farms that we built convert the wind s kinetic energy into electricity.

Denmark is a pioneer in commercial wind power and produces half of the world s wind turbines.

The wild wind was blowing.

And those that strike violently ,

Then by oath of those that push with a strong gust .

storming tempestuously

And those raging swiftly

And by the winds that blow violently ,

Storming turbulently .