Sentence examples for capture wind from inspiring English sources
These are rotating devices that capture wind and help propel the ship forward.
More information-collecting devices are plopped on the sea surface: the N.O.A.A. weather buoys, which measure swells as they tilt and ride over them and capture wind speed, gust strength and direction.
"The dams act as a big battery so you don't have to worry about the intermittency of wind and, in turn, there is the opportunity to capture wind farm power when the wind is blowing and reduce the draw on dams".
Proposition B, which allows the city to issue a $100 million revenue bond to finance solar projects for city- and county-owned buildings and capture wind power elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay area, won with 73percentt of the vote in Tuesday's balloting.
It can be operated at high altitude to capture wind energy without a tower.
The shipborne labs measure ozone, "black carbon," nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and carbon monoxide; they also capture wind, temperature, and other meteorological data.
The team has applied for a patent on using larger versions of the patterned surfaces to capture wind-blown fog.
According to Cramer, one of two processes might then be responsible for the formation of mima-like mounds: as the wind whips across the desert, the plants either protect their island from erosion, leaving a standing butte-like mound, or they capture wind-blown sediment which accumulates over time.
Not only is the design able to capture winds at low speed, thereby "making wind power viable in most of the world", but the system is smaller, simpler, cheaper and quieter than traditional turbines, says SheerWind's Carla Scholz.
In fact, today the race to capture wind-power using a variety of kite-like designs is poised to revolutionize society offering yet another feasible green energy alternative to coal.
It can be shown that the maximum efficiency (energy extracted divided by energy available in the captured wind area) obtainable is about 59 percent, although actual wind turbines extract only a portion of this amount.
