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Wind.
That's the theme here.
Ponta de Santo Cristo, São Miguel do Gostoso, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, Mar. '07
Positioned 300 metres (985 feet) above sea level and 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) outside Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city, the wind farm has over half a million people living within a 30 km radius. This makes Whitelee one of the first large-scale wind farms to be developed close to a centre of population. [5] In May 2009, Whitelee was officially opened to the public by Alex Salmond MSP, First Minister for Scotland. [6] However, Whitelee was generating power long before this with the first phase of the wind farm supplying power to the electricity grid in January 2008.
In May 2009, the Scottish Government granted permission for an extension to the wind farm that will produce up to a further 130 megawatts of power,[7] which would increase the total generating capacity of Whitelee to 452 MW.[8] There is also the potential to increase the generating capacity once again by 140 megawatts. This would give Whitelee the potential to generate almost 600 megawatts of renewable energy.[8]
On 19 March 2010 a blade snapped off a turbine, resulting in temporary suspension of operations until safety checks were completed. Following the accident Keith Anderson, managing director of ScottishPower Renewables, said: "This type of incident is exceptionally rare and highly unusual
On January 25th we were driving west on I-90 between Mitchell and Chamberlain South Dakota when the winds started gusting and blowing rolling clouds of dirt off the fields along the interstate.
lot of windfarms commissioned in Gujarat.............the great step of Gujarat State for power generating.
Harthill, South Yorkshire
Wind pumps like the one pictured here were once a common sight in the rural landscape and their function was to pump water from a well to serve the needs of a farm.
This one, off Harthill Field Road (near the junction with Serlby Lane and Common Road), is one of three in the area, but is the only one still wholly intact. A second one stands close by the modern-day wind turbines in the middle of Loscar Common, but only the main tower remains, whilst a third at Loscar Farm, close to the junction of Harthill Field Road and Packman Lane, though largely intact, has most of its blades missing.
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North America's Largest Wind Turbine located in Pickering Ontario at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station.
Wind turbines generating electrical power at Horse Hollow Wind Farm, Nolan county, Texas the world's largest wind power project.
After the wind tubes were built during a recent Hack Session in the Innovation Lab, the Pre-K STEM class got to put them to use.
Well, another wind storm. This time I get to do some repairs.
So far this season 2 snow storms, 2 wind storms and for the city, 3 days which flooding occurred. Millions in damage, thousands without power and winter has just started. Wow.
The thing that really sucks though is, my friend is on vacation in Thailand and my brother is trekking around Argentina. This was the time to "get out" and into the sun.
Wind section of the Houston High School Marching Band getting ready for the Germantown Christmas Parade 2013
Sunday afternoon event, August 12, 2012
Visitors joined us at our third prototype of a free outdoor market we plan to kick off Summer of 2013. The Wind Fair took place in the front lot and across from the Rotunda.
Photo by Esther Kutnick
© Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu
Wind surfing on Lyall Bay, Wellington, New Zealand. It had been days of stormy weather and then the clouds cleared but the wind kept up. The blue skies and fierce winds with roiling waves were too much to resist for these wind surfers - in spite of the mid winter freezing temperatures of the sea - taken on the shortest day of the year, Winter, July 2009
Sunday afternoon event, August 12, 2012
Visitors joined us at our third prototype of a free outdoor market we plan to kick off Summer of 2013. The Wind Fair took place in the front lot and across from the Rotunda.
Photo by Esther Kutnick
© Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu