One area of investigation is whether turbine blades are blocking signals from the Winter Hill transmitters.
Huge 80-metre-long turbine blades, made in a single span, for vast wind farms out at sea.
The other will produce thousands of hi-tech turbine blades for jet aircraft engines around the world.
On land there have been cases where highway exit ramps have been built just to accommodate wind turbine blades.
Too hot, as it turns out: The gas stream has to be chilled to 1, 100 degrees Fahrenheit before hitting the turbine blades.
When the bi-coastal Obama administration thinks of small business, it undoubtedly dreams of promising start-ups churning out solar panels or turbine blades for windmills.
The University of Birmingham will partner Rolls Royce to launch a research centre for components like turbine blades and produce the next generation of engineers.
When the Blue State Obama Administration thinks of small business, it undoubtedly dreams of promising startups churning out solar panels for office buildings or turbine blades for windmills.
"If they can see them at all, the turbine blades would cover about the size of your thumbnail, and the poles would be about the width of a toothpick, " he said.
The sight and sound of spinning turbine blades on windy stretches of the Australian coast and on inland hills are becoming more common as legislators and consumer demand make renewable energy part of the mainstream.
Acciona Energia, Clipper Windpower and Siemens USA now operate wind manufacturing facilities in the state, and last month Culver's office announced that TPI Composites will open a plant in Iowa to build turbine blades for GE Energy.
But engines are already operating at levels above 2, 500 degrees Fahrenheit, the melting point of the turbine blades that propel the plane, forcing engineers to dream up exotic cooling systems and turn to special coatings and unwieldy materials like ceramics.
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On Friday, I was in Boston -- that's good news. (Applause.) On Friday, I was in Boston, where workers will soon be breaking ground on a new Wind Technology Testing Center that will allow researchers in the United States to test the world's newest and largest wind turbine blades for the very first time.
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Despite signs of a weakening U.S. economy, aerospace component manufacturers are working flat out, machining turbine compressor blades, high-speed bearings and other parts for jet-engine and aircraftmakers.
Siemens said the factory would employ 700 people making blades and turbine units for offshore wind farms.
Siemens has said the factory would employ 700 people making blades and turbine units for offshore wind farms.
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Besides the inevitable headaches that would come from trying to obtain permits to install a 25-story machine with blades that stretch 250 feet, such a turbine would generate more electricity than a typical store needs, Pool says.
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