Sentence examples for captures wind from inspiring English sources

The second innovative feature of INVELOX is that it captures wind flow through an omnidirectional intake and thereby there is no need for a passive or active yaw control.

The resulting Invelox system captures wind at speeds as low as 2kph, funnels it to increase speed before passing it through a small turbine.

These are rotating devices that capture wind and help propel the ship forward.

Conventional wind turbines capture wind travelling only in one direction, and are notoriously inefficient in cities where wind trapped between buildings becomes unpredictable.

However, MCs are not able to capture wind characteristics at high frequencies, and, by definition, in an MC the dependence on events far in the past is lost.

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.

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.

A spinning turbine that can capture wind travelling in any direction and could transform how consumers generate electricity in cities has won its inventors a prestigious international award and £30,000 prize.

This year's UK winner was an urban "spinning" turbine that can capture wind travelling in any direction and is suitable for city apartments, designed by two MSc students at Lancaster University.

At the most basic level, the floating turbines the Ocean Renewable Energy System requires for capturing wind over deep waters are still being tested and have yet to be commercialized.

Our results show that capacity values depend greatly on the design of the simulation model used, and highlight the importance of capturing wind and load data points relating to extremely high demand periods.