Sentence examples for turbine behind from inspiring English sources

The water lashes and keens and roars as it turns the new turbine behind a reinforced steel door at the end of a cramped maintenance tunnel.

When Kurt Karpavich, a resident of Watertown, Conn., an affluent rural town in Litchfield County, sought a variance from the town to put up a 55-foot turbine behind his house last summer, a dozen neighbors signed a petition against it and placed signs reading "No to the Windmill" on their lawns.

This paper focuses on discussing the potential and feasibility of increasing hydropower production by installing hydrokinetic turbines behind existing conventional hydropower stations to establish "combined-cycle hydropower system (CCHS)".

The plane is a DC-3 propeller plan built by Bassler in 1942 and refurbished with dual jet turbines behind each propeller.

Bunching up the vertical-axis turbines behind a leader pays off, Whittlesey and Dabiri reported yesterday at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

"It made the work feel all the more important as we featured how the local economy is impacted by this wind power and the local manufacturing for the turbines behind it.

Each wind turbine creates behind it a "wind shadow" in which the air has been slowed down by drag on the turbine's blades.

It has been revealed that the concentrator works best when the turbine is behind the concentrator at a distance of less than 5 cm from the concentrator and the concentrator inlet to outlet ratio being 6.

The country added 6.3 gW of capacity in 2008, doubling its total wind power capacity to 12.2 gW, in the process becoming the world's second-biggest wind turbine buyer behind the U.S. and the world's fourth-biggest producer of wind power after the U.S., Germany and Spain, according to the annual report of the World Wind Energy Association.

Re your article Cheap, fast wind turbines are leaving nuclear behind (12 September) and your editorial: an even more persistent myth than nuclear being cheaper than renewables is its supposed usefulness in providing a reliable supply of electricity.

Simon Williams, who lives near the site, said: "We live just down the road and looked out of the window and all you could see was this wind turbine with flames behind it.