News tagged with wind speed
Power generation is blowing in the wind
(PhysOrg.com) -- By looking at the stability of the atmosphere, wind farm operators could gain greater insight into the amount of power generated at any given time.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Largest bird alters its foraging due to climate change
Paris/ Leipzig. Wandering albatrosses have altered their foraging due to changes in wind fields in the southern hemisphere during the last decades. Since winds have increased in intensity and moved to the ...
Jan 12, 2012 |
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New forecasting algorithm helps predict hurricane intensity and wind speed
(PhysOrg.com) -- Each year, hurricanes cause tremendous destruction across the globe. It is not a coincidence that the word "hurricane" derives from Huracán, Hunraken or Jurakan, the evil god of winds ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Greenhouse gases to overpower ozone hole
(PhysOrg.com) -- One set of human-created gases is starting to relinquish its hold on Antarctic climate as another group of emissions produced by human activity is starting to take hold, according to a paper ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 02, 2011 |
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New energy in search for future wind
Scientists are taking the first steps to improve estimates of long-term wind speed changes for the fast-growing wind energy sector, intended to reduce the risks for generators in a changing climate.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 22, 2011 |
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NASA/ISRO Image Shows Irene's Winds Before Landfall
Hurricane Irene made landfall early Saturday morning, Aug. 27, just west of Cape Lookout, NC, as a category one hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (75 knots). It is currently over eastern North ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 29, 2011 |
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Icarus' revenge: Plane uses sun to power flight
(AP) -- The plane making one of the biggest splashes at the Paris Air Show carries a grand total of one person and is often delayed because there's too much wind or too little sun.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 21, 2011 |
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NASA: Songda becomes a super typhoon
As predicted, Typhoon Songda intensified and was a super typhoon with wind speeds estimated at over 130 knots ( ~145 mph) when NASA's TRMM satellite passed directly over head on May 26, 2011 at 0806 UTC (4:06 ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 26, 2011 |
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Temperatures and wind conditions move traffic noise
(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine sitting down for your early morning coffee when your nice little suburban morning is disrupted by the sound of highway traffic from a quarter mile away. When you purchased your home ...
May 25, 2011 |
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Killer twisters likely among largest, strongest
Some of the killer tornadoes that ripped across the South may have been among the largest and most powerful ever recorded, experts suggested, leaving a death toll that is approaching that of a tragic "super ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 29, 2011 |
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Improved irrigation system provides water and cost savings
Installation of a water-conserving irrigation system has helped the University of Michigan reduce the amount of water used on irrigation by 68 percent, saving an estimated $141,000 a year.
Apr 19, 2011 |
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Wind and waves growing across globe: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- Oceanic wind speeds and wave heights have increased significantly over the last quarter of a century according to a major new study undertaken by ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young. ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 25, 2011 |
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Study finds wind speeds rose over world's oceans
During the last quarter-century, average wind speeds have increased over the world's oceans, as have wave heights, generating rougher seas, researchers reported in a study published online Thursday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 24, 2011 |
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Higher energy yield with torque vectoring gears
Wind turbines have a problem: Depending on the wind's force, the rotational speed of the turbine and thus of the generator changes. However, alternating current must be fed into the grid with precisely 50 (or 60) hertz. Typically ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 23, 2011 |
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No more solar wind for Voyager 1 spacecraft
(PhysOrg.com) -- The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 13, 2010 |
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