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    NASA managed a program for the United States Department of Energy and the United States Department of Interior to develop utility-scale wind turbines...
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    enable large commercial wind turbines. The NASA wind turbines were developed under a program to create a utility-scale wind turbine industry in the U.S....
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    the wind speed, turbines must survive much higher wind loads (such as gusts of wind) than those loads from which they generate power. A wind turbine must...
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    electricity for small-scale use. These turbines are typically smaller than those found in wind farms. Small wind turbines often have passive yaw systems as...
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    large commercial wind turbines. A series of NASA wind turbines were developed under a program to create a utility-scale wind turbine industry in the U...
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    Windmill (redirect from Wind mill)
    Smith–Putnam wind turbine built in 1941 on the mountain known as Grandpa's Knob in Castleton, Vermont, United States, of 1.25 MW, and the NASA wind turbines developed...
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    Unconventional wind turbines are those that differ significantly from the most common types in use. As of 2024[update], the most common type of wind turbine is the...
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  • WTS-4 Wind Turbine". NASA. Lewis Research Center Large Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbines. NASA Lewis Research Center Large Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbines. Retrieved...
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    and more consistent winds. Commercial floating wind turbines are mostly at the early phase of development, with several single turbine prototypes having...
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    installed four turbines in 2011 at schools in the mountains including Alleghany High, Avery High, Watauga High, & North Wilkes Middle. Five turbines were installed...
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    the first utility-scale offshore wind project under development in the US, featuring 62 fixed-bottom wind turbines, with a combined nameplate capacity...
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  • Seawind Ocean Technology (category Floating wind turbines)
    (OEM) of integrated floating wind turbine and green hydrogen systems. Seawind is developing two-bladed floating wind turbines (6.2 MW and 12.2 MW) suitable...
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    4200 wind turbines in the area. Since then, many wind projects have changed owners and others were repowereed, replacing many older wind turbines at the...
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    The NASA X-43 was an experimental unmanned hypersonic aircraft with multiple planned scale variations meant to test various aspects of hypersonic flight...
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  • QBlade (category Wind turbines)
    of wind turbines" PhD Thesis, TU Berlin, 2020. Available here. Accessed 14 August 2022/ "NREL10-m Wind Turbine Testing in NASA Ames 80'x120' Wind Tunnel"...
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    Glidden Doman (category Wind turbines)
    technology to wind turbines. The 1973 arab oil embargo prompted NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio to lead a 7-year US wind energy program...
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    Nacelle (redirect from Wind turbine nacelle)
    edit.) ISBN 0 85429 182 2 American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) video on construction of an individual wind turbine. http://web.archive...
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  • aspects of the design and maintenance of structures supporting small wind turbines based upon the approaches outlined in the existing communications tower...
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  • William H. Robbins (category NASA people)
    Space Administration (NASA). During his long career at NASA, he worked on the NERVA nuclear rocket engine, NASA wind turbines, communication satellites...
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    high dynamic stresses, friction dampers are used. Blades of wind turbines and water turbines are designed to operate in different conditions, which typically...
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    Attempts to Develop Large Wind-Electric Generating Systems in the U.S. (PDF) (Report). Vol. NASA TM X-71605. Erich Hau, Wind turbines: fundamentals, technologies...
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    Good Wind to giant turbines Archived 2013-09-13 at the Wayback Machine" Berlingske, 4 September 2013. Accessed: 4 September 2013. "All turbines at Anholt...
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  • AMP-Ohio NASA Plum Brook Buckeye Wind Farm Scioto Ridge Wind Farm Blue Creek Wind Farm Timber Road II Wind Farm Timber Road Wind Farm Timber Road III Wind Farm...
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    "Solar wind ripping chunks off Mars -". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. NASA (2015-11-05). "NASA Mission Reveals Speed of Solar Wind Stripping...
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  • at NASA's Electronics Research Center in the 1960s William H. Robbins (B.S.), engineer for NASA; worked on the NERVA nuclear rocket engine, NASA wind turbines...
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    development of wind turbines in Denmark. Over the course of its lifetime, the Gedser wind turbine generated 2.2 million kW-hours (7.9 TJ). The turbine's straightforward...
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    low-level winds referred to as low-level jets, near mountains, radiation inversions that occur due to clear skies and calm winds, buildings, wind turbines, and...
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  • Compact Wind Acceleration Turbines (CWATs) are a class of wind turbine that uses structures to accelerate wind before it enters the wind-generating element...
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  • Skies Safe from Windshear". www.nasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved 2019-08-10. Airborne Wind Shear Detection and Warning Systems. NASA Conference Publication 10050...
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    9.6 MW using 3 GE 1.6 MW wind turbines at Wind Colebrook North and 3 identical wind turbines at Wind Colebrook South. Wind Colebrook won a legal battle...
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