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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Windmills"”.
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Tilters with windmills--the coevolution of the appropriate technology movement in America
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1988.
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Tilting at Windmills: The power of expectations to influence symptom reporting by people exposed to wind turbine sound
Background: A number of people living in the vicinity of wind farms are reporting health complaints they attribute to exposure to sub-audible wind farm sound (infrasound) generated by wind turbines. A causal link between exposure and symptoms is not indicated by empirical evidence. Evidence …
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The conversion of wind power to electrical power
… was of inferior quality.⁴⁰ Electrical-producing windmills are delicate machines in that lightweight components are used to move large forces. Domestically, there are about 50 manufacturers of electrical-producing windmills. Most of these manufacturers have just entered the field. As such, they …
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Literary representation of spanish immigration in the United States of America (1900-1950): transculturation, hybridization, and the third space
… libros: Chromos (1948), de Felipe Alfau; Windmills in Brooklyn (1953) y Fiesta: A Novel of Modern Spain (1960), de Prudencio de Pereda; Pinnick Kinnick Hill: An American Story (2003), de Gain W. González; The Lower East Side Kid That Made It Good: The Autobiography of Claude Morell (2008), …
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Development of Structural Health Monitoring Systems Incorporating Acoustic Emission Detection for Spacecraft and Wind Turbine Blades
… of infrastructures such as buildings, railroads, windmills, bridges, and aircraft. A major technical challenge for existing SHM systems is high power consumption, which severely limits the range of its applications. In this thesis, we investigated adoption of acoustic emission detection to reduce …
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Inverse Inverse Graphics
… from person to person, but rather to fan the windmills of one another's minds. Well then, how do we do it? This thesis suggests that when engaging in artistic expression, we reflect on our shared perceptual and cognitive faculties—"common sense," so to speak—and then construct stimuli to evoke …
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Experimental Investigation of Wind Loading on a Ducted Wind Turbine
… model of an aerofoiled shaped duct (Donqi Urban Windmills) loaded with an actuator disc with 50% porosity was tested in the wind tunnel. Turbulence was generated using a novel multi-grid approach that utilises two passive grids placed at a fixed distance from each other. Testing was done for four …
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Evaluation of landscape level habitat characteristics of golden eagle habitat in Northwestern Mexico
… collisions with vehicles, collision with windmills and wires, poisoning from lead ingestion, drowning, shooting and trapping, and poaching for illegal wildlife trade. Mexican experts believe that a dramatic decline occurred over recent decades and that the remaining pairs have been …
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Windmill electric plants
Owing to the recent development of the Tungsten incandescent lamp, which consumes 1 to 1 1/2 watts per candle-power and which has a positive temperature co-efficient, the windmill electric plant has very much greater possibilities to-day than when the carbon lamp was the only small electric light.
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The Impact of Wind Turbines on the Distribution of Wintering and Migrating Raptors
Renewable energy sources, including wind power, are rapidly expanding as governments aim to fight climate change. However, wind turbines may negatively affect surrounding wildlife. Raptors are birds of prey and are potentially susceptible to being negatively affected by wind turbines. Raptor …